Bernardina
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/beɾnaɾdina/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Bernardina is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 15,584 people, counted by the Meertens NVB.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 16K
- VEVenezuela1 in 22K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
15,584 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Bernardína in SK Slovakia.
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.
How to pronounce Bernardina
- Spanish:/beɾnaɾdina/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/bɨɾnɐɾðinɐ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bernardina 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 | — | 15,584 | 1 in 1.1K | 15K | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,212 | 1 in 96K | 3K | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 1,883 | 1 in 27K | 2.1K | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 1,502 | 1 in 221K | 1.5K | — | 2 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 1,311 | 1 in 22K | 1.3K | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 216 | 1 in 16K | 216 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 85 | 1 in 60K | 85 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | #952 | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Bernardína | 8 |
15,584 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); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)Bernardina is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Infanta Maria José, Duchess in Bavariab. 1857PTnot in their usual namePortuguese and Bavarian Royal (1857–1943)
- Infanta Marie Anne of Portugalb. 1861NLnot in their usual nameGrand Duchess consort and regent of Luxembourg (1861-1942)
- Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugalb. 1862PTnot in their usual nameTitular Duchess of Parma (1862–1959)
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)45 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Bernardina?
- In the etymology graph, Bernadette, Bernie and Bernarda are forms of the same name in other languages; Dina is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Bernardina?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /beɾnaɾdina/; in Portuguese /bɨɾnɐɾðinɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Bernardina?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Bernardina, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Brazil, Spain, United States and Venezuela; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bernardina most common?
- Bernardina is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Bernardina a male or female name?
- Bernardina is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Netherlands (Meertens NVB), Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)), Spain (INE) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020), among others.
- How common is the name Bernardina?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 15,584 people named Bernardina, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Bernardina compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Bernardina is the 952nd most common given name of 9,943 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bernardina?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bernardinaThe 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, “Bernardina” — ranked 145th in the Netherlands (Meertens NVB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.