# Bernardine (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bernardine/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | French |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,128 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 3,128 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From French Bernardine. By surface analysis, Bernard + -ine. Piecewise doublet of Bernardina.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 27 | 2,314 |
| 1963 | 21 | 2,709 |
| 1964 | 17 | 3,118 |
| 1965 | 19 | 2,842 |
| 1966 | 22 | 2,592 |
| 1967 | 14 | 3,502 |
| 1968 | 7 | 5,686 |
| 1969 | 12 | 4,210 |
| 1970 | 8 | 5,864 |
| 1971 | 8 | 6,053 |
| 1972 | 6 | 7,352 |
| 1973 | 7 | 6,735 |
| 1975 | 7 | 7,241 |
| 1976 | 8 | 6,678 |
| 1978 | 5 | 9,908 |

## People named Bernardine

- Bernardine Evaristo, British author and academic (1959-)
- Bernardine Dohrn, American radical activist and law professor

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.