Bernát
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈbɛrnaːt/(recorded in a dictionary) Hungarian · from Wiktionary
Bernát is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 5,160 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026. Recorded meaning: From Germanic Bernhard. Cognate with English Bernard.
- SKSlovakia1 in 5.7K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 7.4K
- ESSpain1 in 17K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
5,160 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bernat in ES Spain, PL Poland, US United States.
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 Bernát
- Hungarian:/ˈbɛrnaːt/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Slovak:/ˈbernaːt/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Czech:/bɛrnaːt/(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)- GermanicBernhard(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*Bernuhardu(inferred from the name graph)via Bernhard
- Proto-Germanic*Bernuharduz(inferred from the name graph)via Bernhard
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From Germanic Bernhard. Cognate with English Bernard.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bernát is found
(measured from records)Bernát 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #971 | 5,160 | 1 in 7.4K | 2.6K | Bernat | 86 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,916 | 1 in 17K | 6.5K | Bernat | 11 |
| US United States | — | 1,522 | 1 in 219K | 1.5K | Bernat | 37 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 962 | 1 in 5.7K | 962 | Bernát | 24 |
| AR Argentina | — | 688 | 1 in 66K | 688 | — | — |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Bernát | 35 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 181 | 1 in 19K | 181 | — | — |
5,160 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Bernát 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 phi-pro, relapse
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)- Gáspár Bernátb. 1810HUHungarian writer (1810–1873)
- István Bernátb. 1854HUHungarian economist and politician (1854-1942)
- Barbara Bernátb. 1988HUHungarian illustrator and graphic artist
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Bernát?
- In the etymology graph, Barney, Berard and Berardo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Bernát mean, and where does it come from?
- From Germanic Bernhard. Cognate with English Bernard. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Bernát?
- It depends on the language: in Hungarian /ˈbɛrnaːt/ (Wiktionary); in Slovak /ˈbernaːt/ (Wiktionary); in Czech /bɛrnaːt/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bernát?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Bernát, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bernat. After it come Spain, United States, Slovakia and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bernát most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bernát is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 5.7 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bernát?
- In Poland, the national register counted 5,160 people named Bernát in 2026, about 1 in 7.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Bernát compared with other names?
- In Poland, Bernát is the 971st most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bernát?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bern%C3%A1tThe 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, “Bernát” — ranked 947th in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.