Bernik
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɝnɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bernik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 3.3K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 73K
- PLPoland1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
628 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bernik 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | #316 | 628 | 1 in 3.3K | 628 | Bernik | 31 |
| US United States | — | 115 | 1 in 2.9M | 115 | Bernik | 12 |
| HR Croatia | — | 58 | 1 in 73K | 58 | Bernik | 18 |
| PL Poland | — | 34 | 1 in 1.1M | 23 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 22 | 1 in 2.1M | 22 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
628 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jože Bernikb. 1924SIpolitician
- France Bernikb. 1927SISlovenian literary historian, writer, and academic (1927–2020)
- Janez Bernikb. 1933SISlovenian painter (1933-2016)
- Janez Bernikb. 1937SISlovenian researcher
- Stane Bernikb. 1938SISlovene art historian
- Ivan Bernikb. 1950SISlovene sociologist
- Stanislav Bernikb. 1962SIresearcher
- Janez Bernikb. 1967SIresearcher
- Mojca Bernikb. 1974SIresearcher
- Darja Gregorčič BernikSIresearcher
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 628 | #408 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 115 | #144,141 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 58 | #11,977 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 47 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 23 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 23 | #81,577 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 22 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 11 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 11 | #124,980 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #77,474 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Bernik?
- A machine transcription gives /bɝnɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bernik have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 628 people named Bernik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bernik.
- Where is Bernik most common?
- Bernik is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bernik?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 628 people named Bernik, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Bernik compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Bernik is the 316th most common surname of 13,062 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/bernikThe 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, “Bernik” — the 316th most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.