Bernheim
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From the town of Bernstein in South Burgenland (Austria) In Baden it is to be found since 1670, also in Waldshut, Thiengen, Altdorf, and Gailingen 1809 (The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/beɾnaeim/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Bernheim is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 331 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Bernheim is also written Μπερνεμ in Greek.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 72K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 106K
- SESweden1 in 444K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 2 (measured from records)
- 1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)
331 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Bernheim in other scripts: Greek
(measured from records)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 Bernheim
- Spanish:/beɾnaeim/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From the town of Bernstein in South Burgenland (Austria) In Baden it is to be found since 1670, also in Waldshut, Thiengen, Altdorf, and Gailingen 1809. In Mainbernheim and Eichstetten.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bernheim is found
(measured from records)Bernheim 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 331 | 1 in 1M | 331 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 116 | 1 in 72K | 116 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 32 | 1 in 106K | 32 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 23 | 1 in 444K | 23 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 9 | 1 in 5.6M | 9 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 7 | 1 in 728K | 7 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 7 | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
331 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hippolyte Bernheimb. 1840FRFrench physician and neurologist (1840-1919)
- Emmanuèle Bernheimb. 1955FRFrench writer and screenwriter (1955–2017)
- Éléonore Bernheimb. 2000FRFrench actress
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)Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Bernheim?
- In Spanish /beɾnaeim/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Where does the name Bernheim come from?
- From the town of Bernstein in South Burgenland (Austria) In Baden it is to be found since 1670, also in Waldshut, Thiengen, Altdorf, and Gailingen 1809. In Mainbernheim and Eichstetten. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- What does the name Bernheim mean?
- Recorded meaning: From the town of Bernstein in South Burgenland (Austria) In Baden it is to be found since 1670, also in Waldshut, Thiengen, Altdorf, and Gailingen 1809.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bernheim?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 331 people named Bernheim, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Switzerland, Uruguay, Sweden and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bernheim most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bernheim is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 72 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bernheim?
- In the United States, the national register counted 331 people named Bernheim in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bernheimThe 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, “Bernheim” — ranked 59769th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.