Bernardo
#1,347 for boys in 2025, 140 births
- Peak · boys
- 1994 · 236 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 11,175since 1888
Bernardo over time
Rank among boys' names. Bernardo has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,347 | 140 |
| 2024 | #1,341 | 143 |
| 2023 | #1,309 | 146 |
| 2022 | #1,300 | 146 |
| 2021 | #1,479 | 121 |
| 2020 | #1,489 | 114 |
| 2019 | #1,171 | 165 |
| 2018 | #1,299 | 140 |
| 2017 | #1,402 | 125 |
| 2016 | #1,313 | 137 |
| 2015 | #1,340 | 131 |
| 2014 | #1,492 | 108 |
| 2013 | #1,305 | 132 |
| 2012 | #1,407 | 118 |
| 2011 | #1,250 | 138 |
| 2010 | #1,250 | 140 |
| 2009 | #1,103 | 167 |
| 2008 | #1,090 | 170 |
| 2007 | #971 | 202 |
| 2006 | #985 | 188 |
| 2005 | #959 | 182 |
| 2004 | #878 | 197 |
| 2003 | #975 | 164 |
| 2002 | #848 | 195 |
| 2001 | #849 | 189 |
| 2000 | #899 | 173 |
| 1999 | #889 | 169 |
| 1998 | #790 | 193 |
| 1997 | #776 | 192 |
| 1996 | #726 | 212 |
| 1995 | #683 | 240 |
| 1994 | #672 | 236 |
| 1993 | #733 | 202 |
| 1992 | #830 | 162 |
| 1991 | #731 | 193 |
| 1990 | #761 | 178 |
| 1989 | #737 | 180 |
| 1988 | #738 | 164 |
| 1987 | #836 | 124 |
| 1986 | #721 | 157 |
| 1985 | #866 | 109 |
| 1984 | #871 | 102 |
| 1983 | #772 | 127 |
| 1982 | #827 | 115 |
| 1981 | #717 | 145 |
| 1980 | #729 | 144 |
| 1979 | #812 | 115 |
| 1978 | #901 | 91 |
| 1977 | #875 | 93 |
| 1976 | #731 | 131 |
| 1975 | #788 | 111 |
| 1974 | #755 | 115 |
| 1973 | #756 | 112 |
| 1972 | #776 | 106 |
| 1971 | #786 | 105 |
| 1970 | #835 | 93 |
| 1969 | #799 | 93 |
| 1968 | #844 | 74 |
| 1967 | #791 | 85 |
| 1966 | #870 | 70 |
| 1965 | #809 | 83 |
| 1964 | #846 | 81 |
| 1963 | #855 | 77 |
| 1962 | #879 | 75 |
| 1961 | #928 | 68 |
| 1960 | #916 | 68 |
| 1959 | #834 | 83 |
| 1958 | #867 | 76 |
| 1957 | #1,050 | 52 |
| 1956 | #1,045 | 52 |
| 1955 | #1,011 | 55 |
| 1954 | #876 | 70 |
| 1953 | #1,015 | 51 |
| 1952 | #883 | 63 |
| 1951 | #1,017 | 48 |
| 1950 | #977 | 50 |
| 1949 | #849 | 65 |
| 1948 | #963 | 52 |
| 1947 | #968 | 54 |
| 1946 | #911 | 53 |
| 1945 | #943 | 47 |
| 1944 | #1,018 | 41 |
| 1943 | #1,053 | 41 |
| 1942 | #1,214 | 33 |
| 1941 | #1,152 | 33 |
| 1940 | #1,251 | 29 |
| 1939 | #1,085 | 35 |
| 1938 | #1,310 | 26 |
| 1937 | #1,094 | 35 |
| 1936 | #1,271 | 27 |
| 1935 | #1,098 | 35 |
| 1934 | #1,213 | 30 |
| 1933 | #1,330 | 25 |
| 1932 | #1,110 | 37 |
| 1931 | #1,031 | 42 |
| 1930 | #1,053 | 43 |
| 1929 | #1,044 | 43 |
| 1928 | #1,003 | 47 |
| 1927 | #1,098 | 42 |
| 1926 | #1,192 | 36 |
| 1925 | #1,073 | 42 |
| 1924 | #1,246 | 34 |
| 1923 | #1,057 | 45 |
| 1922 | #1,644 | 22 |
| 1921 | #1,296 | 32 |
| 1920 | #1,119 | 40 |
| 1919 | #1,207 | 34 |
| 1918 | #1,094 | 39 |
| 1917 | #1,528 | 22 |
| 1916 | #1,374 | 25 |
| 1915 | #1,782 | 16 |
| 1914 | #1,868 | 12 |
| 1913 | #950 | 27 |
| 1912 | #1,527 | 11 |
| 1911 | #1,038 | 11 |
| 1910 | #1,314 | 7 |
| 1909 | #1,155 | 7 |
| 1908 | #1,373 | 5 |
| 1907 | #999 | 8 |
| 1906 | #1,004 | 7 |
| 1905 | — | |
| 1904 | — | |
| 1903 | — | |
| 1902 | #1,137 | 5 |
| 1901 | — | |
| 1900 | — | |
| 1899 | — | |
| 1898 | — | |
| 1897 | — | |
| 1896 | — | |
| 1895 | #978 | 6 |
| 1894 | — | |
| 1893 | — | |
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| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | #917 | 6 |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Bernardo! It came in at #917, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1889–1894, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Bernardo
- 6 spots since 2024 (#1,341 → #1,347)
- 142 spots since 2020 (#1,489 → #1,347)
- 7 spots since 2015 (#1,340 → #1,347)
- Biggest jump: 577 spots in 1913 (#1,527 → #950)
- Biggest drop: 918 spots in 1914 (#950 → #1,868)
- Debuted 1888
- Peaked 1994 at #672 (236 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 18 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 62 yrs · run 1958–2007
- Highest: 1 in 7,932 boys born in 1995 were named Bernardo (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,201 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #672 in 1994, was only 1 in 8,187 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 17.7% of all boys named Bernardo (1,977) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | #917 (1888) | #917 |
| 1890s | 6 | #978 (1895) | #978 |
| 1900s | 32 | #999 (1907) | #1,134 |
| 1910s | 204 | #950 (1913) | #1,368 |
| 1920s | 383 | #1,003 (1928) | #1,177 |
| 1930s | 335 | #1,031 (1931) | #1,160 |
| 1940s | 448 | #849 (1949) | #1,032 |
| 1950s | 600 | #834 (1959) | #958 |
| 1960s | 774 | #791 (1967) | #854 |
| 1970s | 1,072 | #731 (1976) | #802 |
| 1980s | 1,367 | #717 (1981) | #781 |
| 1990s | 1,977 | #672 (1994) | #759 |
| 2000s | 1,827 | #848 (2002) | #956 |
| 2010s | 1,334 | #1,171 (2019) | #1,323 |
| 2020s | 810 | #1,300 (2022) | #1,378 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Bernardo in 1941
Top boys' names in 1941
More about 1941
boys
1,228,318 boys got a published name in 1941; 1 in 37,222 of them was named Bernardo, which outranked 71.2% of the 4,002 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,129Urban34
- #1,129Virgle34
- #1,129Werner34
- #1,152Bernardo33
- #1,152Annie33
- #1,152Bailey33
- #1,152Blake33
- #1,169Allison32
- #1,169Brenda32
- #1,169Casimir32
Tied with 16 names at #1,152; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.