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Bernarda

Girls' name

Possibly bear + hard, brave, through Bernard

Bernarda has been given to 360 babies in the U.S. since 1908. 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 1927, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Bernarda, 1995

1 in 732,000

Bernarda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bernarda: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly bear + hard, brave, through Bernard

Proto-Germanic

What Bernarda means

Bernarda belongs to the name family reached through Bernarda → Bernard → Bernardus → *Bernuharduz. Its meaning is “bear + hard, brave”.

Origin, language, and formation

Bernarda is used in English, Cebuano, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Its origins include Proto-Germanic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bernard, Bernardo, Bernardus and *Bernuharduz.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Bernarda is pronounced /berˈnar.da/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 360 girls were recorded with the name Bernarda between 1908 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1927; its best national rank was #1,808 in 1911.

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 Bernarda?

Bernarda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1995
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,660,254 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1995
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,420 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bernarda 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 1995 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 507,420 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bernarda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bernardas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bernarda was born before 1930 — so the typical Bernarda is around 95 today.

Median birth year
1930
About 95 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
28.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
102
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1920s — 28.3% of all recorded uses (102).

Is Bernarda 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1927 (17)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,808
1911

Spellings of Bernarda

Bernarda is not the most common spelling — Fernanda is, with 87.3% against Bernarda's 1.6%.

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.

Where Bernarda is used

Across 1910–2025, Bernarda was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 137,988 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bernarda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bernarda around the world

Where Bernarda 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.

  • France
    1931–1931
    #1,423
    in 1931
  • South Australia
    1960–1960
    #617
    in 1960

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bernarda 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
#1,808
1911
Peak year
1927
17 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
360
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bernarda

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

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Sibling names for Bernarda

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

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