Bernie — #5440 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Bernie

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,217 babies named Bernie between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Bernie currently holds the #5440 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1960, when 231 babies received it in a single year. Bernie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,535 additional births since 1890.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bernie performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 1,506 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Bernie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 754 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Bernie in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bernie 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 9,217 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.