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    The surname Bernales

    A Spanish place surname, carried by 610 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex B654

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bernales is more common than 77.4% of them.

    Origin

    Spanish origin

    Borrowed from Spanish Bernales, a habitational surname from Basque. This surname is mostly found in the Philippines.

    Bernales is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 610 people named Bernales in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 506,140 Americans. That is up 52% since 2000, when the Census counted 402.

    #36,630
    rank among US surnames
    610
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +51.7%
    change since 2000 (was #49,159)

    Who is named Bernales

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    46% of people named Bernales identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 43% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 7.0% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Asian and Pacific Islander 46%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 43%
    • White (not Hispanic) 7.0%
    • Two or more races 3.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Bernales

    Bernales has the Soundex code B654, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B654.

    Other Spanish surnames

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Bernales come from?
    Borrowed from Spanish Bernales, a habitational surname from Basque. This surname is mostly found in the Philippines.
    How common is the surname Bernales?
    610 people in the United States had the surname Bernales in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 506,140 Americans. It ranked 36,630th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bernales?
    In the 2010 Census, 46% of people named Bernales identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 43% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Bernales?
    Bernales is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Bernales getting more or less common?
    More common. 402 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 610 in 2010, up 52%.