Bernt
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Swedish: a male given name derived from a Low German form of Bernhard
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/be:n`t`/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bernt is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Sweden.
- NONorway
- SESweden
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name borrowed from a Low German variant of Bernhard
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bernt is read(measured from records)
Bernt is one spelling over 5 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.
- Swedish23%
a male given name derived from a Low German form of Bernhard
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Bernt är en lågtysk form av → Bernhard. Namnet blev vanligt i Sverige under 1600-talet, ibland i formen Berent. I den rikssvenska almanackan 20 augusti och i den finlandssvenska 19 april. Bert-, -bert Germanskt namnelement, av fornhögtyskt beraht ’ljus, lysande’ (jfr bjärt). Exempel där elementet ingår är Albert, Berta, Berthold, Engelbrekt, Gilbert, Herbert, Hubert.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Norwegian21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bernt in Norwegian.
- English18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bernt in English.
- German15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bernt in German.
- Danish6.1%
a male given name borrowed from a Low German variant of Bernhard
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Recorded in:
- SESweden
- NONorway
- USUnited States
- DEGermany
- DKDenmark
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Bernt Notkeb. 1435DEGerman painter and sculptor (1440–1509)
- Bernt Michael Holmboeb. 1795NONorwegian mathematician (1795–1850)
- Bernt Balchenb. 1899NOaviation pioneer and United States Army officer (1899-1973)
- Bernt Evensenb. 1905NONorwegian speed skater and racing cyclist (1905-1979)
- Bernt Engelmannb. 1921DEGerman writer and journalist (1921–1994)
- Arne Selmossonb. 1931SEnot in their usual nameSwedish footballer and manager (1931-2002)
- Bernt Johanssonb. 1953SESwedish road racing cyclist
- Jordan Petersonb. 1962CAnot in their usual nameCanadian clinical psychologist, author, and political commentator and manosphere activist (1962-)
- Kennet Anderssonb. 1967SEnot in their usual nameSwedish footballer
- Bernt Haasb. 1978CHSwiss footballer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Where does the name Bernt come from?
- a male given name borrowed from a Low German variant of Bernhard Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Bernt mean?
- In Swedish, a male given name derived from a Low German form of Bernhard
- How do you pronounce Bernt?
- A machine transcription gives /be:n`t`/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- Is Bernt a male or female name?
- Bernt 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.
- What are other forms of the name Bernt?
- In the etymology graph, Bernard, Ben and Bernardo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Bernt have the most bearers?
- Bernt is most frequently recorded in Sweden.
What do you want to know about Bernt?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/berntThe 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, “Bernt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.