Berni

surname · Latin script

Meaning: forma reduzida de Bernardi

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

Berni is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 794K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 4K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 28K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,254 people

Sources
153 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

forma reduzida de Bernardi

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Where in the world(measured from records)

Berni 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.

Where Berni is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,2541 in 169K1.3K—3
UY Uruguay8451 in 4K845——
US United States4191 in 794K503Berni153
ES Spain3061 in 163K306Berni24
CH Switzerland2971 in 28K297Berni8
AR Argentina2731 in 167K273——

1,254 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)

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

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Italy, United States, Paraguay

    Also written Berní, Bêrni, Bérni

  • German surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, United States

    Also written Bérni, Berní

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Berní, Bérni, Bernì, Bêrni

  • Arabic surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, Syria, Italy, Algeria

    Also written Bérni, Bêrnì, Bèrni, Béŕńí

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Berní

46 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)

Berni 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 Czech, dative/accusative/locative singular of berně

    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)

1400160018002000Francesco Berni, b. 1497Antonio Berni, b. 1905Ángel Berni, b. 1931Mara Berni, b. 1932Sergio Berni, b. 1962Franco Berni, b. 1965David Berni, b. 1970Tommaso Berni, b. 1983Marcel Berni, b. 1988

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 39 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Berni
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.3K#7,535
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—845—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020503#45,763
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000435#46,153
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010419#49,999
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—306#11,865
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—306#11,847
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024297#4,394
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—273—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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 Berni mean, and where does it come from?
forma reduzida de Bernardi Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
In which country does Berni have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Berni, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Berni most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Berni is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 4.0 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Berni?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,254 people named Berni, about 1 in 169 thousand residents.

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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, “Berni”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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