Bernita

Where Bernita comes from

The dictionaries list Bernita as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,319 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1933
    Peak, #689
    89 babies named Bernita — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,222.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes

No widely known Bernita turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.