Bernestine Popularity by Year

Follow Bernestine across every available national year. Rankings and birth counts remain separated by the source dataset’s girl and boy categories.

Bernestine birth-count history

The chart samples long histories for faster loading. The complete table below includes every recorded year.

Year	Category	Births	Rank	Change from previous recorded year
1965	Girls	7	#5,289	Down 750 places
1963	Girls	9	#4,539	Down 276 places
1962	Girls	10	#4,263	Up 1,588 places
1961	Girls	6	#5,851	Down 1,931 places
1960	Girls	11	#3,920	Down 93 places
1959	Girls	11	#3,827	Down 1,164 places
1958	Girls	19	#2,663	Up 1,267 places
1957	Girls	10	#3,930	Up 231 places
1956	Girls	9	#4,161	Down 1,066 places
1955	Girls	14	#3,095	Down 400 places
1954	Girls	17	#2,695	Down 264 places
1953	Girls	19	#2,431	Up 1,692 places
1952	Girls	8	#4,123	Down 1,186 places
1951	Girls	13	#2,937	Up 115 places
1950	Girls	12	#3,052	Down 326 places
1949	Girls	14	#2,726	Up 411 places
1948	Girls	11	#3,137	Up 569 places
1947	Girls	9	#3,706	Down 826 places
1946	Girls	12	#2,880	Down 138 places
1945	Girls	11	#2,742	Down 543 places
1944	Girls	16	#2,199	Up 248 places
1943	Girls	14	#2,447	Up 997 places
1942	Girls	8	#3,444	Down 192 places
1941	Girls	8	#3,252	Down 955 places
1940	Girls	13	#2,297	Up 120 places
1939	Girls	12	#2,417	Up 1,838 places
1937	Girls	5	#4,255	Down 554 places
1936	Girls	6	#3,701	Down 1,277 places
1934	Girls	12	#2,424	Up 1,987 places
1932	Girls	5	#4,411	Down 80 places
1931	Girls	5	#4,331	Down 673 places
1930	Girls	7	#3,658	Up 1,067 places
1928	Girls	5	#4,725	Down 439 places
1927	Girls	6	#4,286	Up 687 places
1925	Girls	5	#4,973	Down 1,308 places
1924	Girls	8	#3,665	—