Origin: | From Old High German words for bear and brave, hardy | Tools: Add to favorites Generate: Twitter-able text SMS text Compare to: Behind the Name Search with: Wikipedia NNDB IMDb Google |
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Name info: About the name Bernard in particular | Gender: | male |
Languages of use: | French, English |
Saints: | Bernard of Clairvaux |
US 2021 rank: | not in the Top 1000; other popularity lists see below |
Similarly written: | Bernarda, Bernarde, Bernardo, Bernhard, Bernward, Berardo, Bernd, Berngar, Bernharda, Bernharde Details |
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Group info: About Bernard/Bernharde, the group of names with the same origin as Bernard | Language of origin: | Old High German |
Info about origin, male: | old Germanic two-element name |
| known from Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Doctor of the Church (11th/12th century AD) |
Words: | bero = the bear Old High German |
| harti = brave, hardy Old High German |
| bernu = the bear Germanic |
Topics: | Two-element name |
Variants' top ranks: | 3:Bernardo Brazil 2017, 8:Bernard France 2011, 20:Bernd Germany 2005, 39:Bernadett Hungary 2002, 40:Bernhard Austria 1999, 67:Bernadette Belgium 2013, 95:Bernt Sweden 2014, 671:Benno Switzerland 1997 |
Name variants: | Bernadett, Bernadette, Bernarda, Bernarde, Bernharda, Bernharde, Bernhardina, Bernhardine, Barney, Barny, Benno, Berardo, Bernard, Bernardino, Bernardo, Bernd, Berndt, Bernhard, Bernhardin, Bernie, Bernt Sortable list Details |
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Popularity: Popularity lists that contain the name Bernard | Series | Graph | Rankings |
Belgium prevalence | | 2013 47 |
England+Wales decades | Graph | 1954 63, 1944 37, 1934 38, 1924 42, 1914 40, 1904 45 |
France prevalence | | 2011 8 |
Norway | | 2021 199 |
USA decades | Graph | 1990-1999 480, 1980-1989 324, 1960-1969 168 |
USA yearly | Graph | 2008 943, 2007 930, 2006 957, 2005 831, 2004 765, 2003 790, 2002 759, 2001 689, 2000 655, 1999 649, 1998 616, 1997 579, 1996 565, 1995 496, 1994 495, 1993 434 |
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