Bernis — boys' name

What the Data Says About Bernis

The Social Security Administration has registered 428 babies named Bernis between 1912 and 1973, spanning 62 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Bernis currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1973. The name reached its historical peak in 1927, when 23 babies received it in a single year. Bernis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 107 additional births since 1917.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bernis performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 118 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Bernis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Bernis in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bernis 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 428 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.