Bërend
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bërend is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A contraction of Bernhard (“Bernard”).
- NLNetherlands1 in 787(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 74K
- USUnited States1 in 2.5M
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- 1 in 787 (inferred from the name graph)
21,946 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Berend in NL Netherlands, DE Germany, US United States and 3 more.
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 contraction of Bernhard (“Bernard”).
Sources 2
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bërend 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #496 | 21,946 | 1 in 787 | 22K | Berend | 109 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Berend | 12 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 74K | listed | Berend | 73 |
| US United States | — | 132 | 1 in 2.5M | 599 | Berend | 189 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 142K | 2 | Berend | 22 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 273K | 6 | Berend | 15 |
21,946 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bërend mean, and where does it come from?
- A contraction of Bernhard (“Bernard”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Bërend a male or female name?
- Bërend 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.
- In which country does Bërend have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Bërend, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled berend.
- Where is Bërend most common?
- Bërend is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 787 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bërend?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 21,946 people named Bërend, about 1 in 787 residents.
- How common is Bërend compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Bërend is the 496th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bërend?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%ABrendThe 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, “Bërend” — the 496th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.