Berne
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Berne is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- FRFrance
- CHSwitzerland
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 232 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Berne counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 434 | Berne | 232 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3 | Berne | 5 |
| SE Sweden | — | 968 | — | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 529 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 511 | — | 53 |
| ES Spain | — | 365 | — | 10 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Berne is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A placename
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Berne är ursprungligen en smekform till namn på Bern- (’björn’).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, Undiminuierten einstämmigen Kurzform; patronymisch zu Rufname Bernhard. 56 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In enm, alternative form of barn (“child”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Bern (the capital city of Switzerland; the capital city of Bern canton)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, compound of the infinitive bere with ne
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Étienne Prosper Berne-Bellecourb. 1838FRFrench painter (1838-1910)
- Dagmar Berneb. 1866AUAustralian woman physician
- Arvīds Ozols-Bernēb. 1888LVLatvian discus thrower and shot putter
- Eric Berneb. 1910CACanadian psychiatrist (1910-1970)
- Eva von Berneb. 1910ATAustrian actor
- André Berne-Joffroyb. 1915FRXXth century art critic (1915–2007)
- Alf Berneb. 1921SESwedish architect
- Tim Berneb. 1954USAmerican jazz saxophonist
- Suzanne Berneb. 1961USnovelist
- Mats Wiefferb. 1999NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player (born 1999)
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)35 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 573 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 544 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 529 | #16,199 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 529 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 512 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 511 | #40,335 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 476 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 472 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 447 | #47,429 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 434 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 433 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 430 | #52,161 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Berne have the most bearers?
- Berne is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled berne.
What do you want to know about Berne?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/berneThe 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, “Berne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.