Bernardine

Where Bernardine comes from

From French Bernardine. By surface analysis, Bernard + -ine. Piecewise doublet of Bernardina.
— Wiktionary's entry for Bernardine
  • French
  • Vowel-ended
Bernardine through the years
  1. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,276 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1931
    Peak, #777
    75 babies named Bernardine, its best rank.
  3. 1942
    Bernardine Dohrn born
    American radical activist and law professor
  4. 1945
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,332.
  5. 1959
    Bernardine Evaristo born
    British author and academic
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French.
Namesakes
  • Bernardine Evaristo · British author and academic, born 1959
  • Bernardine Dohrn · American radical activist and law professor, born 1942
  • Bernardine of Lippe · German noblewoman, 1563–1628
  • Bernardine Flynn · American actress and comedian, 1904–1977
  • Bernardine do Régo · Beninese diplomat, 1937–2024

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.