# Bernd (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bernd/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | German |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 97 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 97 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Borrowed from German Bernd.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 6 | 3,598 |
| 1960 | 11 | 2,546 |
| 1961 | 10 | 2,726 |
| 1962 | 10 | 2,682 |
| 1963 | 7 | 3,342 |
| 1964 | 10 | 2,679 |
| 1965 | 6 | 3,572 |
| 1966 | 5 | 3,997 |
| 1968 | 10 | 2,746 |
| 1969 | 6 | 3,988 |
| 1971 | 5 | 4,982 |
| 1973 | 5 | 5,174 |
| 1979 | 6 | 5,427 |

## People named Bernd

- Bernd Leno, German association football player (born 1992)
- Bernd Schuster, German association football manager and former player
- Bernd Hölzenbein, German footballer (1946-2024)
- Bernd Schneider, German association football player
- Bernd Eichinger, German film producer, director, and screenwriter (1949–2011)
- Bernd Förster, German footballer
- Bernd Bransch, East German footballer (1944–2022)
- Bernd Storck, German footballer and manager
- Bernd Kannenberg, German athletics competitor (1942–2021)
- Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, German general (1914–2007)
- Bernd Krauss, Austrian footballer and manager
- Bernd Thijs, Belgian footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.