Bernadean

Last seen for girls in 1972 at #8,292

Peak · girls
1930 · 21 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
521
since 1913

Bernadean over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Bernadean has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201926peak #1,748, 1930girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1972#8,2925
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1963#5,2967
1962#4,26310
1961#4,8828
1960#6,3905
1959#5,0317
1958#4,8907
1957#3,93010
1956#5,9525
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1954#5,7535
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1952#4,9086
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1949#3,6129
1948#3,5939
1947#3,24011
1946#3,9947
1945#3,3888
1944#3,1399
1943#4,1966
1942#4,1246
1941
1940#3,2088
1939#3,4297
1938#3,4507
1937#2,9409
1936#2,03215
1935#2,73110
1934#1,91317
1933#2,40412
1932#1,95717
1931#2,30713
1930#1,74821
1929#2,09816
1928#1,78422
1927#2,25616
1926#2,16517
1925#3,6648
1924#2,06219
1923#2,16917
1922#1,95720
1921#2,12018
1920#2,26316
1919#2,38414
1918#2,37614
1917#2,10016
1916#3,0319
1915#2,52611
1914#3,1886
1913#2,8276
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First appearance
1913

The first year at least five girls were named Bernadean! It came in at #2,827, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1941, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Bernadean
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1972
Rise & fade · girls
17 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1913
  • Peaked 1930 at #1,748 (21 births)
  • Births halved by 1935, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 52,424
  • Highest: 1 in 52,424 girls born in 1928 were named Bernadean (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 304,249 girls born in 1972 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,748 in 1930, was only 1 in 53,616 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 32.4% of all girls named Bernadean (169) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s76#2,100 (1917)#2,633
1920s169#1,784 (1928)#2,254
1930s128#1,748 (1930)#2,491
1940s73#3,139 (1944)#3,610
1950s40#3,930 (1957)#5,077
1960s30#4,263 (1962)#5,208
1970s5#8,292 (1972)#8,292

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Bernadean in 1926

girls
#2,165
17 births · 1 in 69,729 girls

Top girls' names in 1926

  1. #1Mary67,832
  2. #2Dorothy36,618
  3. #3Betty32,964
  4. #4Helen26,886
  5. #5Margaret23,072
  6. #6Ruth20,225
  7. #7Doris16,295
  8. #8Virginia16,161
  9. #9Mildred13,547
  10. #10Frances13,355
  11. #2,165Bernadean17
More about 1926

girls

1,185,401 girls got a published name in 1926; 1 in 69,729 of them was named Bernadean, which outranked 61.5% of the 5,622 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Bernadean
  1. #2,076Wylene18
  2. #2,076Zana18
  3. #2,076Zeta18
  4. #2,165Bernadean17
  5. #2,165Altagracia17
  6. #2,165Audrea17
  7. #2,165Ayako17
  8. #2,257Adriana16
  9. #2,257Alena16
  10. #2,257Aloha16

Tied with 91 names at #2,165; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1925
Risers
  1. 1,047Janell#1,795#748
  2. 389Madalyn#1,225#836
  3. 382Evangelina#1,324#942
  4. 379Carla#1,252#873
  5. 351Vilma#1,020#669
Fallers
  1. 597Albertine#944#1,541
  2. 462Cleora#895#1,357
  3. 461Lorrayne#988#1,449
  4. 453Hermina#996#1,449
  5. 307Ethelene#913#1,220

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1926