Boy · Germanic
Bernardo
Say it: ber-NAR-doh
Meaning
From Germanic Bernhard, from bern 'bear' and hard 'hardy, brave'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A recent favourite in Brazil.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 1990s
In the United States
- 10,478 babies given this name since 1888
- At its height in 1995, about 1 in 7,900 boys
- 113 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
| English | Bernard |
|---|---|
| German | Bernhard |
| Portuguese | Bernardo |
| Italian | Bernardo |
Famous bearers
- Bernardo Bertolucci, film director
- Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean independence leader
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Where this comes from
- Medieval and Renaissance Italian records, such as the Florentine tax survey of 1427
- Calendars of saints and name days
- Parish baptism registers
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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