Bernadette
2025 SSA
About Bernadette
Although feminizations ending in "ette" are not particularly popular now, Bernadette is a pleasant, feminine, but strong name that doesn't feel prohibitively dated. And though strongly associated with the saint who saw visions of the Virgin Mary—Saint Bernadette of Lourdes—it is now no longer strictly inhabiting the Catholic diocese.
Bernadette was much more widely used at one time than it is now. The year after Saint Bernadette was canonized, her name reached Number 252, and not long after the successful film The Song of Bernadette was released, it hit Number 188 in 1946.
Bernadette Peters is a contemporary bearer, and Minnie Driver's breakthrough film role was as Bernadette "Benny" Hogan in Circle of Friends.
Pronounced ber-nuh-DET.
As of October 2026, Bernadette ranked #1034 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #188 in 1946, Nameberry popularity #488.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,604 | 134 | 75 |
| 2015 | #1,479 | 155 | 86.8 |
| 2016 | #1,526 | 148 | 83.5 |
| 2017 | #1,318 | 177 | 102.5 |
| 2018 | #1,271 | 181 | 106.4 |
| 2019 | #1,549 | 139 | 82.8 |
| 2020 | #1,444 | 150 | 92.8 |
| 2021 | #1,179 | 207 | 126.2 |
| 2022 | #1,296 | 182 | 111 |
| 2023 | #1,236 | 189 | 117.8 |
| 2024 | #1,247 | 186 | 114.8 |
| 2025 | #1,034 | 241 | 149.9 |
World rankings
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Bernadette on lists
Famous Bernadettes
- Saint Bernadette Soubirous
French mystic and visionary of Our Lady of Lourdes
- Bernadette Peters
American actress and singer
- Bernadette (Kraakman)
Danish pop singer
- Bernadette Anne "Pixie" McKenna
Irish physician and TV presenter
- Bernadette Lafont
French actress
- Bernadette Chirac
wife of former French President Jacques Chirac
- Bernadette Dupont
French Senator
- Bernadette Bourzai
French Senator
- Bernadette Yao
American actor
- Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton
English actress
- Shona Bernadette McGarty
English actress
- Sinead Marie Bernadette O'Connor
Irish singer,songwriter
- Bernadette Banner
historical costumer and YouTube creater
Bernadette in pop culture
- Bernadette Maryann Rostenkowski
Wolowitz, character on TV's "The Big Bang Theory"
- Bernadette Fox
main character in "Where'd You Go, Bernadette?" by Maria Semple
- Sister Bernadette (later Shelagh Turner)
character on TV's "Call the Midwife"
- Bernadette Ezkeniazki
character in the movie "No Reservations"
- Bernadette Stabler
Eliott Stabler's mother on TV's "Law and Order; SVU"
- "Bernadette
" song by The Four Tops
- "Bernadette
" song by IAMX
- "Bernadette
" song by Paul Simon
- "Bernadette
" song by The Kinks
- Bernadette "Bernie" Kaplan
main character in novel "The Legacies"
Variations & nicknames
- BerneenIrish
- BernarditaSpanish
- BernardettaItalian
- BernadettHungarian