Bernett — unisex name

What the Data Says About Bernett

The Social Security Administration has registered 51 babies named Bernett between 1918 and 1961, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bernett currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1961. The name reached its historical peak in 1925, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Bernett is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 26 additional births since 1925.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bernett performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 23 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Bernett shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bernett in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 51 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.