# Bernhard (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bernhard/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,671 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,671 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 7 | 5,200 |
| 1986 | 6 | 6,008 |
| 1987 | 6 | 6,172 |
| 1990 | 6 | 7,271 |
| 1991 | 11 | 4,791 |
| 1995 | 5 | 9,007 |
| 1997 | 12 | 4,990 |
| 1998 | 5 | 9,786 |
| 2000 | 5 | 10,543 |
| 2001 | 5 | 10,749 |
| 2004 | 5 | 11,561 |
| 2010 | 5 | 12,461 |
| 2015 | 5 | 12,310 |
| 2017 | 5 | 12,510 |
| 2021 | 6 | 10,966 |

## People named Bernhard

- Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (1826–1866)
- Bernhard von Bülow, German and Prussian politician (1849–1929)
- Bernhard Cullmann, German footballer
- Bernhard Rust, German Holocaust perpetrator (1883-1945)
- Bernhard Wicki, Austrian actor and film director (1919–2000)
- Bernhardus Varenius, German geographer
- Bernhard Kellermann, German author (1879-1951)
- Bernhard Schmidt, Baltic German astronomer (1879-1935)
- Bernhard Klodt, German footballer (1926-1996)
- Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Danish novelist and poet, lyricist (1789–1862)
- Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German nobleman
- Bernhard I of Saxe-Meiningen, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen from 1691 to 1706

## 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.