Bernadetta

Girls' name

Form of Bernadette

Bernadetta has been given to 199 babies in the U.S. since 1912. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Bernadetta, 1975

1 in 431,000

Bernadetta over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bernadetta: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Bernadette

French

What Bernadetta means

Bernadetta is a form of Bernadette.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Bernadetta is used in Polish.

Origin, language, and formation

Bernadetta is used in English and Italian. Its origins include French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bernadette.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 199 girls were recorded with the name Bernadetta between 1912 and 1975. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1918; its best national rank was #2,178 in 1912.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bernadetta?

Bernadetta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1975, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1975: 1 in 431,000; 7 of 3,019,126 births
Among girls only: 1 in 208,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1975: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 298,958 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Bernadetta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1975 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 298,958 children born in 1975 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bernadetta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bernadettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bernadetta was born before 1931 — so the typical Bernadetta is around 94 today.

Median birth year: 1931; About 94 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 32.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 44.2%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 88; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (64).

Is Bernadetta rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1918 (11)
Years since peak: 107; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 32.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,178; 1912

Spellings of Bernadetta

Bernadetta is not the most common spelling — Bernadette is, with 94.8% against Bernadetta's 0.34%.

Bernadette94.8%54,973
Bernetta4.8%2,797
Bernadetta0.34%199

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Bernadetta around the world

Where Bernadetta ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

South Australia
1952–1971
#724
in 1971

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bernadetta by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,178; 1912
Peak year: 1918; 11 that year
First recorded: 1912
Last recorded: 1975
All-time count: 199
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Bernadetta

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Bernadetta

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Winnifred Johnie Ray Lida Maybelle Floy Garnet Mathilda

For a brother

Granville Valentine Ellsworth Orval Sol Omer Ferdinand Regis

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