Bernardo — #1337 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Bernardo

The Social Security Administration has registered 11,034 babies named Bernardo between 1888 and 2024, spanning 137 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Bernardo currently holds the #1337 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 240 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bernardo performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 1,977 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Bernardo shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 3,129 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Bernardo in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bernardo in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 11,034 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.