Given name & surname
Bernette
“one who has bearlike strength and courage”·“having brown hair”
Bernette is a variant of Bernadine. In English use, Bernadine carries the interpretation “one who has bearlike strength and courage.” Bernette is a variant of Burnet. One French interpretation is “having brown hair.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bernette is a variant of Bernadine. In English use, Bernadine carries the interpretation “one who has bearlike strength and courage.” Bernette is a variant of Burnet. One French interpretation is “having brown hair.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Bernette is a variant of Burnet. An origin associated with Burnet is French.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bernette through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 787
- 0 boys · 787 girls
- Most popular year
- 1948
- 23 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 1979. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 23 in 1948. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 546 as a first name in 2020; 103 as a surname in 2000.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bernette’s family of names
Bernette has a related form in Bernadine. Bernette has a related form in Burnet.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Bernette
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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