Bernadette

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

French pet form of Bernarde (see Bernharda) (see also -ette)

Related Names

Bernadet	♀
Bernadeta	♀
Bernadete	♀
Bernadeth	♀
Bernadett	♀
Bernadetta	♀
Bernadette	♀

See also Dette

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Bernadette
Genitive:	Bernadettes

- Finnish
Nominative:	Bernadette
Genitive:	Bernadeten / Bernadetten
Partitive:	Bernadettea

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Bernadette
Genitive:	Bernadettes

- Swedish
Nominative:	Bernadette
Genitive:	Bernadettes

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 1915 (København)
• Sweden: 1922 (Kalmar, Småland)
• Norway: ca 1930
• Finland: ca 1930

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark: 1930-
• Sweden: 1940-

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Sydsverige
  • Västsverige
  • Gotland

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 35 people were named Bernadette (percentage of first or only given name: 23 %)

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		137	335	137	335	0	0
Denmark		82	n.a.	82	n.a.	0	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	119	n.a.	119	0	0
Iceland		2	2	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		76	n.a.	76	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		0	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Bernadette.