Berna is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Berna has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Berna. That means that a girl named Berna is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Berna.
Is the name Berna a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Chosen by 48 parents, the name was given most frequently in 1929 – at that time, it ranked #965. It thus experienced its last peak in a world without internet and cell phones, even before the first personal computer was built. (Do you remember? Those were those big boxes that couldn't even begin to do what a simple robot vacuum cleaner can do today). Since Berna is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always come up with the idea of giving their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Berna, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, you stand out with your name these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Berna was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Berna born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn girls with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Berna born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Berna in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 67 women and girls named Berna, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 67 women and girls named Berna live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri and New Mexico. In all other 42 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Berna. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Berna lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Berna and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Berna relative to its female population is New Mexico. And even there, only one in 65,876 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Berna.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a B. This means that B as the first letter for girls' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Berna is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, if 3.2% of all girls’ names start with a B, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with B that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Barbara.
If your name is Berna and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Berna, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Elephant
Rocket
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Berna
Berna
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
E
R
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
E
R
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Berna sounds like this:
