Bernie

girls:

1.5k births since 1890

#4212 (26th percentile)

boys:

9.2k births since 1880

#1229 (73rd percentile)

overall:

10.7k births since 1880

#2555 (67th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bernie".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
1,535
Peak Births
51
Peak Year
1957
First Recorded
1890
Peak Percentile
6.0%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#287
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
9,200
Peak Births
231
Peak Year
1960
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
30.0%
Current Percentile
0.4%
Peak Rank
#196
Current Rank
#907
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Bernie

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Bernie. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 95.6% confident that Bernie is pronounced as BER-nee. The next most likely pronunciation is ber-NEE, at 4.4% confidence.

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BER-nee (2 syllables)
Verified
95.6% confidence
B ER1 N IY0
ber-NEE (2 syllables)
4.4% confidence
B ER0 N IY1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Bernie. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Bernie, please vote using the thumbs up button.

BER-nuh-bee (3 syllables)
1 name 1.8k births
B ER1 N AH0 B IY0

Names with this pronunciation:

ber-nuh-BEE (3 syllables)
1 name 1.8k births
B ER0 N AH0 B IY1

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like B ER1 N IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.