Bernardo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bernardo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Luxembourg it is the 19th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Dal germanico ber/bern 'orso' + hard 'ardito, forte'.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 640(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 932
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.3K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 286 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 640 (inferred from the name graph)
227,232 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
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(measured from records)
Dal germanico ber/bern 'orso' + hard 'ardito, forte'.
Sources 1
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bernardo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #256 | 227,232 | 1 in 932 | 227K | Bernardo | 206 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Bernardo | 91 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 2K | — | 2 |
| AO Angola | #35 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Bernardo | 48 |
| US United States | — | 19,954 | 1 in 17K | 20K | Bernardo | 286 |
| PT Portugal | #92 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 640 | 795 | Bernardo | 158 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 923 | — | Bernardo | 14 |
| LU Luxembourg | #19 | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Bernardo | 14 |
227,232 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Bernardo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Germanic. See }Bernard in main dictionary. Feminine form: Bernarda.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Italian, forma italiana de Bernardus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Swedish, Se Bernhard.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, männl. Vom., italienische und spanische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Temerario como un oso
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Bernard Plantapilosab. 841FRnot in their usual nameFrenkish count
- Bernard of Clairvauxb. 1090FRnot in their usual nameBurgundian saint, abbot and theologian (1090–1153)
- Bernardo Daddib. 1290FRItalian painter (1290–1348)
- Bernardo Bellottob. 1721ITItalian artist (1722–1780)
- Bernardo O'Higginsb. 1778CLChilean independence leader (1778–1842)
- Bernardo Houssayb. 1887ARArgentine physician (1887–1971)
- Bernardo Provenzanob. 1933ITItalian mob boss
- Bernardo Bertoluccib. 1941ITItalian film director and screenwriter (1941–2018)
- Bernardo Arévalo de Leónb. 1958GTPresident of Guatemala since 2024
- Bernardo Silvab. 1994PTPortuguese association football player (born 1994)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 100 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 227K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 225K | #139 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 68K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 57K | #712 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 20K | #1,605 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.9K | #139 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023) | 2023 | 795 | #15 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 140 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 107 | #724 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 64 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 64 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 38 | #1,605 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- In which country does Bernardo have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 227 thousand people named Bernardo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bernardo.
- What does the name Bernardo mean, and where does it come from?
- Dal germanico ber/bern 'orso' + hard 'ardito, forte'. Recorded by Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani.
- What are other forms of the name Bernardo?
- In the etymology graph, Bernard, Bernd and Bernhard are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Bernardo a male or female name?
- Bernardo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Bernardo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 227,232 people named Bernardo in 2022, about 1 in 932 residents.
- How common is Bernardo compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Bernardo is the 256th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bernardoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Bernardo” — the 256th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.