Bernell
About 2,308 American babies have been named Bernell since 1912, most of them around 1923. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2019. About 990 Bernells are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Bernell boys named Bernell
Girls and boys called Bernell
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 750 girls and 1,558 boys in all, and in 1964 the split was 6 to 21.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 46 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,308
- Estimated living today
- 990
- Median age today
- 66
- Peak year
- 1923
- Best rank
- 1,140th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 750 / 1,558
How old the living Bernells are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,308 babies given the name since 1912, about 990 are alive — 43 in every hundred. Roughly 20 of them are children and 520 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Bernell is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Bernell is most concentrated in Louisiana (39.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1923
The most popular boys’ names the year Bernell peaked:
Related names
Bernell against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.