Bernardo
Bernardo was given to 140 boys in 2025, #1,347 among boys’ names; 11,175 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,350 Americans named Bernardo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 18 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bernardo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bernardo mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Bernardo is “a male given name from Proto-Germanic, feminine equivalent Bernarda, equivalent to English Bernard”
From Latin Bernardus, from Proto-Germanic *Bernuharduz.
/berˈnar.do/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bernardo?
#1,347 among boys’ names, 2025
Bernardo fell from #1,340 in 2015 to #1,347 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 68.3 to 82.0 per million.
240 babies in 1995, the peak
Bernardo peaked in 1995, when 240 boys were given it, #680 among boys’ names. The 140 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 140 | #1,347 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 143 | #1,341 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 146 | #1,310 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 146 | #1,301 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 121 | #1,480 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 114 | #1,490 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 165 | #1,171 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 140 | #1,300 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 125 | #1,404 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 137 | #1,314 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (123)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 131 | #1,340 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 108 | #1,493 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 132 | #1,307 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 118 | #1,409 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 138 | #1,251 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 140 | #1,251 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 167 | #1,106 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 170 | #1,091 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 202 | #971 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 188 | #985 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 182 | #958 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 197 | #878 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 164 | #974 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 195 | #847 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 189 | #848 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 173 | #897 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 169 | #889 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 193 | #790 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 192 | #774 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 212 | #725 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 240 | #680 | 0.13 |
| 1994 | 236 | #671 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 202 | #732 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 162 | #828 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 193 | #727 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 178 | #757 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 180 | #734 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 164 | #737 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 124 | #836 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 157 | #722 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 109 | #866 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 102 | #871 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 127 | #773 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 115 | #827 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 145 | #717 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 144 | #729 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 115 | #813 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 91 | #901 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 93 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 131 | #731 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 111 | #788 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 115 | #755 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 112 | #757 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 106 | #776 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 105 | #787 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 93 | #835 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 93 | #800 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 74 | #844 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 85 | #791 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 70 | #871 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 83 | #809 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 81 | #846 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 77 | #855 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 75 | #880 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 68 | #928 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 68 | #915 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 83 | #833 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 76 | #866 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 52 | #1,051 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 52 | #1,045 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 55 | #1,010 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 70 | #876 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 51 | #1,015 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 63 | #882 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 48 | #1,021 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 50 | #977 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 65 | #848 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 52 | #964 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 54 | #968 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 53 | #914 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 47 | #943 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 41 | #1,022 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 41 | #1,057 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 33 | #1,215 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 33 | #1,154 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 29 | #1,251 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 35 | #1,086 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,313 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 35 | #1,097 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 27 | #1,273 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 35 | #1,099 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 30 | #1,217 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,333 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 37 | #1,113 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 42 | #1,034 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 43 | #1,054 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 43 | #1,046 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 47 | #1,007 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 42 | #1,099 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 36 | #1,192 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 42 | #1,077 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 34 | #1,250 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 45 | #1,059 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,653 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 32 | #1,300 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 40 | #1,120 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 34 | #1,207 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 39 | #1,096 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,536 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,380 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,795 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,878 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 27 | #951 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,533 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,046 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,325 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,165 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,389 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,006 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,015 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,160 | 0.04 |
| 1895 | 6 | #990 | 0.05 |
| 1888 | 6 | #927 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bernardo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bernardo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 123 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bernardo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bernardo, and how old are they?
9,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 11,175 Americans ever recorded as Bernardo. The median Bernardo alive today is 31 years old; half are between 18 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 19,954 people named Bernardo (38 women and girls, 19,916 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,888 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 125 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 802 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,440 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,520 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,730 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,740 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Bernardo born?
The states with the most babies named Bernardo are California, Texas and Florida, with 68% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 30 | #807 | 2.5× |
| Texas | 20 | #1,101 | 3.0× |
| Florida | 20 | #756 | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 16 | #335 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,040 | 0.8× |
| New York | 5 | #1,798 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,259 | 0.0× |
Where Bernardo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bernardo is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Bernardo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 20,394 babies since 1880, Bernardo is the most given (55% of them). In 2025 it was given to 140 of their 185 babies (76%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bernardo
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Bernardo and names like it
- Compare Bernardo and DinoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBernardo peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bernardo since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Bernardo.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bernardo alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.