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)
The name Bernie is the #2,555 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,735 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 67.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,229 (73.2% percentile) for all time with 9,200 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,212 (26.3% percentile) for all time with 1,535 births since 1890.
Bernie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1890 for girls). Birth data for Bernie is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for boys and 76 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Bernie has been given predominantly to boys, with 85.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Bernie were boys.
For boys, Bernie reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 30.0% percentile (ranked #460) with 107 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 132 births per million (ranked 6.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Bernie ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 3.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Bernie reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 6.0% percentile (ranked #722) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 45 births per million (ranked 2.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1975.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bernie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Bernie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Bernie is pronounced as BER-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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