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How popular is “Bernita” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bernita” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Bernita” 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 “Bernita” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bernita” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bernita” 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
1900 9 0.000019989 9 100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 100%
1909 9 0.000017605 9 100%
1910 17 0.000028779 17 100%
1911 18 0.000027938 18 100%
1912 26 0.000026314 26 100%
1913 32 0.000028142 32 100%
1914 41 0.000028948 41 100%
1915 53 0.000028923 53 100%
1916 56 0.000028949 56 100%
1917 51 0.000025414 51 100%
1918 93 0.000042835 93 100%
1919 65 0.000030802 65 100%
1920 81 0.000035799 81 100%
1921 70 0.000029985 70 100%
1922 59 0.000025774 59 100%
1923 73 0.000031705 73 100%
1924 85 0.00003569 85 100%
1925 89 0.000038143 89 100%
1926 81 0.00003528 81 100%
1927 64 0.000027594 64 100%
1928 85 0.000037595 85 100%
1929 67 0.000030563 67 100%
1930 73 0.000032834 73 100%
1931 68 0.000032313 68 100%
1932 57 0.000026998 57 100%
1933 89 0.000044512 89 100%
1934 87 0.000041891 87 100%
1935 74 0.000035408 74 100%
1936 74 0.000035618 74 100%
1937 50 0.000023467 50 100%
1938 59 0.000026666 59 100%
1939 54 0.000024507 54 100%
1940 54 0.000023451 54 100%
1941 55 0.000022574 55 100%
1942 64 0.000023428 64 100%
1943 66 0.000023383 66 100%
1944 51 0.000018959 51 100%
1945 48 0.000018093 48 100%
1946 65 0.000020342 65 100%
1947 56 0.000015546 56 100%
1948 51 0.000014772 51 100%
1949 74 0.000021235 74 100%
1950 70 0.000019981 70 100%
1951 88 0.000023889 88 100%
1952 92 0.000024223 92 100%
1953 96 0.000024911 96 100%
1954 117 0.000029392 117 100%
1955 88 0.000021917 88 100%
1956 89 0.000021586 89 100%
1957 76 0.000018086 76 100%
1958 79 0.00001911 79 100%
1959 76 0.000018278 76 100%
1960 80 0.000019259 80 100%
1961 73 0.000017623 73 100%
1962 83 0.000020568 83 100%
1963 91 0.00002299 91 100%
1964 74 0.000019035 74 100%
1965 67 0.00001848 67 100%
1966 67 0.000019277 67 100%
1967 58 0.000017084 58 100%
1968 59 0.000017464 59 100%
1969 48 0.000013812 48 100%
1970 54 0.000014973 54 100%
1971 48 0.000013985 48 100%
1972 34 0.000010818 34 100%
1973 39 0.000012927 39 100%
1974 34 0.000011184 34 100%
1975 21 0.000006955 21 100%
1976 26 0.000008569 26 100%
1977 21 0.000006611 21 100%
1978 19 0.000005986 19 100%
1979 26 0.000007815 26 100%
1980 21 0.000006097 21 100%
1981 26 0.000007516 26 100%
1982 16 0.000004561 16 100%
1983 28 0.000008085 28 100%
1984 19 0.000005446 19 100%
1985 15 0.000004203 15 100%
1986 16 0.000004498 16 100%
1987 12 0.000003328 12 100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 100%
1989 13 0.000003382 13 100%
1990 16 0.000004048 16 100%
1991 11 0.000002824 11 100%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 100%
1995 7 0.000001911 7 100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 100%

Explore other names

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  8. Bernitta
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  10. Bernnadette
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