Bernie
Bernie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. Its best rank was 469th, in 1937.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 170.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1960231 births
- Best rank
- #469in 1937
- Since 1880
- 10,752people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,217 boys have been named Bernie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 231 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1950, and the 1950s alone account for 16%. It has spent 91 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,535 girls have also been given it, 14% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Bernie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 72 | |
| 1890s | 99 | |
| 1900s | 154 | |
| 1910s | 594 | |
| 1920s | 953 | |
| 1930s | 1,280 | |
| 1940s | 1,410 | |
| 1950s | 1,506 | |
| 1960s | 1,468 | |
| 1970s | 663 | |
| 1980s | 340 | |
| 1990s | 267 | |
| 2000s | 224 | |
| 2010s | 113 | |
| 2020s | 74 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Bernie was the 524th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1960 were David, Michael, James, John and Robert. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Bernie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Eddiepeak 1947
- Lawrencepeak 1952
- Carlpeak 1956
- Gilbertpeak 1930
- Jamespeak 1947
- Laurencepeak 1952
- Joepeak 1936
- Raypeak 1926
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.