Bernita
Bernita reached its high-water mark in 1954 at number 888, and has been recorded 4,630 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2000. About 2,400 Bernitas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Bernita
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,630
- Estimated living today
- 2,400
- Median age today
- 66
- Peak year
- 1954
- Best rank
- 888th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1900
How old the living Bernitas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,630 babies given the name since 1900, about 2,400 are alive — 51 in every hundred. Roughly 0 of them are children and 1,300 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 Bernita is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Bernita is most concentrated in Kansas (11.0×), Iowa (9.5×), Illinois (4.0×), Nebraska (3.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1954
The most popular girls’ names the year Bernita peaked:
Related names
Bernita against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.