Given name
Bernadetta
“one who has bearlike strength and courage”
Bernadetta is a variant of Bernadine. In English use, Bernadine carries the interpretation “one who has bearlike strength and courage.”
Original FrenchBernadette
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bernadetta is a variant of Bernadine. In English use, Bernadine carries the interpretation “one who has bearlike strength and courage.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bernadetta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 199
- 0 boys · 199 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 1975. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 268 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bernadetta’s family of names
In English usage, Bernadetta has a related form in Bernadette. In Italian usage, Bernadetta has a conventional equivalent in the English form Bernadette. Bernadetta has a related form in Bernadine.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bernadetta
- Bernadetta MatuszczakPolish composer (1931–2021)
- Bernadetta Machała-KrzemińskaPolish actressborn 1966
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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