Given name
Bernardina
“one who has bearlike strength and courage”
Bernardina is a variant of Bernadine. In English use, Bernadine carries the interpretation “one who has bearlike strength and courage.”
Original ItalianDina
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bernardina is a variant of Bernadine. In English use, Bernadine carries the interpretation “one who has bearlike strength and courage.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Italian usage, Bernardina is a feminine form of BERNARDINO.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1908. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bernardina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 166
- 0 boys · 166 girls
- Most popular year
- 1925
- 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 5 in 2006. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 1925. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,502 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.
Bernardina’s family of names
In Italian usage, Bernardina has a diminutive in BERNARDINO. In Italian usage, Bernardina has a related form in Dina. Bernardina has a related form in Bernadine.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bernardina has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Italian roots to each of them.
Italianwhere Bernardina comes from · 2 names
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bernardina
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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