Berneta
Berneta was last recorded in 1970, when 5 babies were given it; 473 Americans have been recorded with it between 1908 and 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Berneta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Berneta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,094, in 1970; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1916, the peak
Berneta peaked in 1916, when 20 girls were given it, #1,741 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 5 | #8,094 | 2.9 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,088 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,912 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,904 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,758 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,324 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #4,952 | 3.4 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,799 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,503 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,935 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 11 | #3,389 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,046 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,353 | 4.1 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,029 | 4.5 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,208 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,471 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,533 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,462 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,752 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,754 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,881 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,797 | 5.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,351 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,705 | 9.9 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,508 | 11.2 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,438 | 11.3 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,317 | 12.4 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,594 | 10.7 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,633 | 10.4 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,075 | 8.4 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,484 | 11.8 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,029 | 15.6 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,531 | 11.2 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,149 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,790 | 10.0 |
| 1921 | 18 | #2,131 | 14.6 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,180 | 14.2 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,658 | 10.6 |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,112 | 14.7 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,780 | 18.5 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,741 | 19.2 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,268 | 13.2 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,041 | 16.0 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,984 | 16.7 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,957 | 17.7 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,144 | 15.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Berneta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Berneta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Berneta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Berneta, and how old are they?
An estimated 117 Americans named Berneta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (25% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 69 and 84. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 172 people named Berneta (172 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 158 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Berneta?
Berneta is a less common spelling of Bernetta: SSA has recorded 473 Berneta and 2,797 Bernetta since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 8,779 babies since 1880, Berneta is the fourth most given (5.4% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Berneta
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Berneta and names like it
- Compare Berneta and BernettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sBerneta peaked in 1916.
- Iowa’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Berneta since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Berneta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Berneta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.