Bernadette
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
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.
Bernadette is also given to boys.
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 · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,604 | 134 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #1,479 | 155 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #1,526 | 148 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #1,318 | 177 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #1,271 | 181 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #1,549 | 139 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #1,444 | 150 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #1,179 | 207 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #1,296 | 182 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #1,236 | 189 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #1,247 | 186 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #1,034 | 241 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Bernadette for girls
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Bernadette on lists
Famous Bernadettes
- Saint Bernadette SoubirousGirl
French mystic and visionary of Our Lady of Lourdes
- Bernadette PetersGirl
American actress and singer
- Bernadette (Kraakman)Girl
Danish pop singer
- Bernadette Anne "Pixie" McKennaGirl
Irish physician and TV presenter
- Bernadette LafontGirl
French actress
- Bernadette ChiracGirl
wife of former French President Jacques Chirac
- Bernadette DupontGirl
French Senator
- Bernadette BourzaiGirl
French Senator
- Bernadette YaoGirl
American actor
- Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette StauntonGirl
English actress
- Shona Bernadette McGartyGirl
English actress
- Sinead Marie Bernadette O'ConnorGirl
Irish singer,songwriter
- Bernadette BannerGirl
historical costumer and YouTube creater
Bernadette in pop culture
- Bernadette Maryann RostenkowskiGirl
Wolowitz, character on TV's "The Big Bang Theory"
- Bernadette FoxGirl
main character in "Where'd You Go, Bernadette?" by Maria Semple
- Sister Bernadette (later Shelagh Turner)Girl
character on TV's "Call the Midwife"
- Bernadette EzkeniazkiGirl
character in the movie "No Reservations"
- Bernadette StablerGirl
Eliott Stabler's mother on TV's "Law and Order; SVU"
- "BernadetteGirl
" song by The Four Tops
- "BernadetteGirl
" song by IAMX
- "BernadetteGirl
" song by Paul Simon
- "BernadetteGirl
" song by The Kinks
- Bernadette "Bernie" KaplanGirl
main character in novel "The Legacies"