Berne

loc · Latin script

Meaning: A placename

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Berne is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.

rarermore common
  • 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)

no count published

Sources
232 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

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(measured from records)

A placename

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Where Berne is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—434Berne232
CH Switzerland—3Berne5
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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Berne is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Switzerland, Poland

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Bernè, Berné

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Berné

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Berné

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Berné, Berñe, Bernè

  • Croatian surname16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Also written Berne', Bern, Bernè, Берн, Berné

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Berne 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.

  • 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)

18001850190019502000Étienne Prosper Berne-Bellecour, b. 1838Dagmar Berne, b. 1866Arvīds Ozols-Bernē, b. 1888Eric Berne, b. 1910Eva von Berne, b. 1910André Berne-Joffroy, b. 1915Alf Berne, b. 1921Tim Berne, b. 1954Suzanne Berne, b. 1961Mats Wieffer, b. 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)

Attested in 35 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Berne
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951573—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971544—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—529#16,199
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961529—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941512—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000511#40,335
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921476—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981472—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010447#47,429
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991434—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931433—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020430#52,161

Reference works 6

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 Berne mean, and where does it come from?
A placename Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Berne have the most bearers?
Berne is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled berne.

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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 2026-10-10.

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