How popular is “Bernard” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bernard” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Bernard” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Bernard” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Bernard” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Bernard” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Bernard” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bernard” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	140	0.000694844		140	-100%
1881	130	0.000674666		130	-100%
1882	144	0.000650016		144	-100%
1883	141	0.000649931		141	-100%
1884	140	0.000575041		140	-100%
1885	160	0.000664303		160	-100%
1886	180	0.000705009		180	-100%
1887	159	0.000642705		159	-100%
1888	207	0.000691212		207	-100%
1889	215	0.000744084		215	-100%
1890	178	0.000590575		178	-100%
1891	187	0.000652311		187	-100%
1892	237	0.000708787		237	-100%
1893	217	0.000667234		217	-100%
1894	256	0.000755853		256	-100%
1895	259	0.00073785		259	-100%
1896	241	0.000674156		241	-100%
1897	239	0.000688846	5	234	-96%
1898	284	0.000744518		284	-100%
1899	222	0.000654416		222	-100%
1900	308	0.000684052		308	-100%
1901	247	0.000714261	5	242	-96%
1902	259	0.000669713		259	-100%
1903	271	0.000710913		271	-100%
1904	326	0.000807961		326	-100%
1905	292	0.000688806		292	-100%
1906	343	0.000800558		343	-100%
1907	378	0.000812222		378	-100%
1908	414	0.000847234		414	-100%
1909	463	0.00090567		463	-100%
1910	565	0.000956475	5	560	-98%
1911	786	0.00121997	9	777	-98%
1912	1437	0.001454362		1437	-100%
1913	1924	0.001692009	8	1916	-99%
1914	2454	0.00173263	18	2436	-99%
1915	3322	0.001812897	20	3302	-99%
1916	3491	0.001804678	15	3476	-99%
1917	3727	0.001857232	16	3711	-99%
1918	4117	0.001896264	19	4098	-99%
1919	3925	0.001859974	10	3915	-99%
1920	4191	0.001852259	28	4163	-99%
1921	4500	0.001927604	15	4485	-99%
1922	4434	0.001936958	25	4409	-99%
1923	4396	0.001909245	20	4376	-99%
1924	4524	0.001899555	19	4505	-99%
1925	4283	0.001835596	24	4259	-99%
1926	4195	0.001827166	23	4172	-99%
1927	4199	0.001810415	34	4165	-98%
1928	4098	0.001812522	31	4067	-98%
1929	3843	0.001753065	34	3809	-98%
1930	3854	0.001733469	24	3830	-99%
1931	3538	0.001681249	24	3514	-99%
1932	3266	0.001546921	14	3252	-99%
1933	3024	0.001512418	19	3005	-99%
1934	3157	0.001520115	11	3146	-99%
1935	2942	0.001407723	9	2933	-99%
1936	2863	0.001378047	9	2854	-99%
1937	2680	0.00125782	9	2671	-99%
1938	2725	0.001231597	10	2715	-99%
1939	2635	0.001195856	11	2624	-99%
1940	2475	0.001074832	7	2468	-99%
1941	2515	0.00103225	6	2509	-100%
1942	2736	0.001001531	12	2724	-99%
1943	2756	0.000976419	12	2744	-99%
1944	2628	0.000976923	9	2619	-99%
1945	2405	0.000906552	16	2389	-99%
1946	2610	0.000816823	5	2605	-100%
1947	3006	0.000834462	12	2994	-99%
1948	2715	0.000786383		2715	-100%
1949	2685	0.000770494	6	2679	-100%
1950	2649	0.000756132	12	2637	-99%
1951	2777	0.000753854	7	2770	-99%
1952	2757	0.000725907	7	2750	-99%
1953	2756	0.000715167	10	2746	-99%
1954	2737	0.000687566	8	2729	-99%
1955	2566	0.000639091	6	2560	-100%
1956	2498	0.000605864	15	2483	-99%
1957	2550	0.000606833	17	2533	-99%
1958	2414	0.000583952	8	2406	-99%
1959	2290	0.000550747	15	2275	-99%
1960	2313	0.000556838	11	2302	-99%
1961	2166	0.000522898	16	2150	-99%
1962	1983	0.000491404	12	1971	-99%
1963	1962	0.00049568	18	1944	-98%
1964	1889	0.000485903	11	1878	-99%
1965	1681	0.000463667	6	1675	-99%
1966	1540	0.000443082	19	1521	-98%
1967	1449	0.000426817	8	1441	-99%
1968	1318	0.000390124	11	1307	-98%
1969	1295	0.000372627	11	1284	-98%
1970	1197	0.000331899	11	1186	-98%
1971	1174	0.000342039	6	1168	-99%
1972	1059	0.00033694	12	1047	-98%
1973	953	0.000315889	8	945	-98%
1974	864	0.000284211	6	858	-99%
1975	857	0.000283832	10	847	-98%
1976	801	0.000263982	8	793	-98%
1977	765	0.000240832	7	758	-98%
1978	748	0.000235674	10	738	-97%
1979	765	0.000229937	5	760	-99%
1980	769	0.000223254		769	-100%
1981	705	0.000203794	8	697	-98%
1982	683	0.0001947	6	677	-98%
1983	649	0.000187391	9	640	-97%
1984	623	0.000178574	8	615	-97%
1985	660	0.00018492	7	653	-98%
1986	602	0.00016924	7	595	-98%
1987	599	0.00016613	6	593	-98%
1988	614	0.000166169	5	609	-98%
1989	659	0.000171416		659	-100%
1990	516	0.000130551		516	-100%
1991	558	0.000143251		558	-100%
1992	530	0.000137975		530	-100%
1993	515	0.000136595	8	507	-97%
1994	413	0.000111092		413	-100%
1995	431	0.00011769		431	-100%
1996	323	0.000088561		323	-100%
1997	319	0.000087982		319	-100%
1998	297	0.000080746		297	-100%
1999	266	0.000072011		266	-100%
2000	275	0.000072753		275	-100%
2001	261	0.000069723		261	-100%
2002	226	0.000060455		226	-100%
2003	220	0.000057859		220	-100%
2004	238	0.000062289		238	-100%
2005	223	0.000058		223	-100%
2006	194	0.000049037		194	-100%
2007	212	0.000053031		212	-100%
2008	214	0.000054444		214	-100%
2009	189	0.000049474		189	-100%
2010	172	0.00004654		172	-100%
2011	168	0.000045929		168	-100%
2012	150	0.000041013		150	-100%
2013	167	0.000045808		167	-100%
2014	158	0.000042629		158	-100%
2015	151	0.000040801		151	-100%
2016	163	0.00004443		163	-100%
2017	160	0.00004474		160	-100%
2018	167	0.000047499		167	-100%
2019	150	0.000043216		150	-100%
2020	147	0.000044004		147	-100%
2021	143	0.000042208		143	-100%
2022	147	0.000043451		147	-100%
2023	122	0.000036845		122	-100%
2024	147	0.000044164		147	-100%

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