Girl
Bernadette
Bernadette is a girl's name meaning "French feminine of Bernard", drawing on French roots. It has not kept pace since its 1960s peak. In the current registry, it is a name plenty of people share. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
FrenchFrench feminine of Bernard
GermanicGermanic "bear" + "brave" – "brave as a bear"
Births by decade
1900s
598
1910s
2,078
1920s
3,534
1930s
3,770
1940s
8,629
1950s
10,700
1960s
10,754
1970s
5,907
1980s
3,276
1990s
1,979
2000s
944
2010s
936
Peaked in the 1960s · 53,105 total U.S. births since 1900