Bernardina

Girls' name

Bear + hard, brave, through Bernardino

Bernardina has been given to 166 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 1925, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Bernardina, 2006

1 in 791,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bernardina: meaning, origin, and history

Bear + hard, brave, through Bernardino

Italian

What Bernardina means

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

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Italian Bernardina. By surface analysis, Bernard + -ina.

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Origin, language, and formation

Bernardina is used in English and Italian. Its origins include Italian.

Bernardina comes through Italian Bernardina.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bernardino, Bernardina, Bernardo, Bernardus and *Bernuharduz.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Bernardina is pronounced /ber.narˈdi.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 166 girls were recorded with the name Bernardina between 1908 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1925; its best national rank was #2,143 in 1908.

How common is Bernardina?

Bernardina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006: 1 in 791,000; 5 of 3,956,166 births
Among girls only: 1 in 380,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2006: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 548,442 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Bernardina 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 2006 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 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bernardina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bernardinas were born

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

Median birth year: 1930; About 95 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 30.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 9.6%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 62; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 30.7% of all recorded uses (51).

Is Bernardina 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 1925 (11)
Years since peak: 100; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,143; 1908

Spellings of Bernardina

Bernardina is not the most common spelling — Bernadine is, with 86.9% against Bernardina's 0.66%.

Bernadine86.9%21,933
Bernardine12.4%3,128
Bernardina0.66%166

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 Bernardina is used

Across 1910–2025, Bernardina was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 in —

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. Bernardina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bernardina around the world

Where Bernardina 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
1955–1965
#674
in 1965

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

Bernardina 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: #2,143; 1908
Peak year: 1925; 11 that year
First recorded: 1908
Last recorded: 2006
All-time count: 166
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Bernardina

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

Sibling names for Bernardina

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

Concepcion Easter Gene Rosina Kattie Lavon Jaunita Vernell

For a brother

Domenick Hosea Rollin Alvis Jewel Eldridge Lenard Merritt

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