Bernardine

Where Bernardine comes from

From French Bernardine. By surface analysis, Bernard + -ine. Piecewise doublet of Bernardina.
— Wiktionary's entry for Bernardine
  • French
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,276 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1931
    Peak, #777
    75 babies named Bernardine — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1942
    Bernardine Dohrn born
    American radical activist and law professor
  4. 1945
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,332.
  5. 1959
    Bernardine Evaristo born
    British author and academic
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French.
Namesakes
  • Bernardine Evaristo · British author and academic, born 1959
  • Bernardine Dohrn · American radical activist and law professor, born 1942
  • Bernardine of Lippe · German noblewoman, 1563–1628
  • Bernardine Flynn · American actress and comedian, 1904–1977
  • Bernardine do Régo · Beninese diplomat, 1937–2024

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.