Bernadett
Bernadette is a French name, a female form of the name Bernard, which means "brave bear". Bernadett is the Hungarian spelling.
- Hungarian
Meaning & Origin of Bernadett
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Bernadette is a French name, a female form of the name Bernard, which means "brave bear". Bernadett is the Hungarian spelling.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Hungarian
The Story of Bernadett
The earliest SSA record of Bernadett as a baby girl name dates back to 1945, when 7 babies received it. 1959 was its biggest year on record, with 16 newborns named Bernadett — #2,980 in the national rankings. About 45% of every Bernadett on record arrived during the 1960s, its defining decade. Bernadett last appeared in the published SSA data in 1986, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 181 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1940s to the 2020s.
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About the name Bernadett
Bernadett is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1945 and has accumulated 181 births in the dataset. Bernadett's peak popularity came in 1959 when it ranked #2,980. Use the chart and map above to compare Bernadett's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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