Bardo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɑɹdoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bardo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 316K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 128K
- NONorway1 in 130K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- 1 in 128K (inferred from the name graph)
1,054 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bardo is read(measured from records)
Bardo is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English65%
The state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish9.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bardo in Spanish.
- Polish6.5%
reed, weaving comb
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French6.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bardo in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bardo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,054 | 1 in 316K | 1.2K | Bardo | 181 |
| BR Brazil | — | 348 | 1 in 608K | 348 | — | — |
| IT Italy | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 203K | 1 | Bardo | 12 |
| PL Poland | — | 299 | 1 in 128K | 155 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 325K | — | Bardo | 43 |
| ES Spain | — | 162 | 1 in 309K | 162 | — | 7 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 213K | — | Bardo | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | 42 | 1 in 130K | 42 | — | 1 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #178 | — | — | — | Bardo | 1 |
1,054 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bardo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Forse da Berardo o Bernardo; possibile anche da altri nomi germanici affini.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, Secondo il Fumagalli, da Berardo o Uernnrdo; ma hanno uguale probabilità altri nomi germanici. quali Isimbardo, Gabardo, ecc., e non è escluso il muta- mento 1 = r. Cogn. di etimologia evidente Bardi, -delli, -dellini. In Frifili Bardua, Barduz, Bardusco. - Toponomastica: Bar, Bard, Bardassano (Torino). Bardi (Piacenza). Bardino, Bardineto (Genova).
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
In Italian, forma italiana de Bardus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, aus dem Rufnamen Bard- (Stamm Bard-); Belegformen mit Bearer-Counts auf der Seite.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John Bardob. 1948USAmerican educator
- Stephen Bardob. 1968USAmerican basketball player (born 1968)
- Joseph Bardob. 2000USAmerican pornographic film director, cinematographer, and former (mainstream) film actor
- Sarah Bardob. 2000USAmerican costume designer who worked for pornographic and horror films
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 214 | #36,633 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #36,633 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2022 | 1 | #7,867 |
| ES Spain | 25,000 Nombres de Bebé (Vázquez de Haro, 2005) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bardo mean, and where does it come from?
- The state of existence between death and subsequent reincarnation. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bardo?
- A machine transcription gives /bɑɹdoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bardo have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Bardo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bardo.
- Where is Bardo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bardo is densest in Poland — about 1 in 128 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bardo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,054 people named Bardo in 2010, about 1 in 316 thousand residents.
- How common is Bardo compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Bardo is the 178th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bardoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bardo” — the 178th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.