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Bernhardt

“bear” + “hard, strong”

masculineLatin script

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German (Germany, Berlin)

Origin: Old High German
2 language contexts: German Danish
Follow the evidence: 7 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Bernhardt

Bernhardt is a masculine given name documented in German and Danish. English Wiktionary traces it to Old High German Bernhart via Middle High German, from the components “bear” + “hard, strong”.

Old High German origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “bear” + “hard, strong”

From Middle High German Bernhart, from Old High German Bernhart, from Proto-West Germanic *Bernuhardu, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Bernuharduz. Equivalent to Old High German bero (“bear”) (modern Bär) + hart (“hard, strong”) (modern hart).

Sources for this account (4)

Wiktionary: BernhardtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: BernhardtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: BernhardtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Chinese Wiktionary: BernhardtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

02 / Across borders

Where Bernhardt is used

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3 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Official statistics

United States, 1964: 5 boys (rank 4039).

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4 of 7 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Bernhardt

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 1964: 5; applications; Rank #4,039
Peak year: 1915; 19 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

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Bernhardt in United States, boys: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	5	1,373	observed
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	8	1,290	observed
1912	13	1,353	observed
1913	14	1,441	observed
1914	12	1,868	observed
1915	19	1,600	observed
1916	15	1,949	observed
1917	19	1,693	observed
1918	17	1,905	observed
1919	16	1,973	observed
1920	18	1,885	observed
1921	15	2,152	observed
1922	12	2,486	observed
1923	17	1,941	observed
1924	13	2,347	observed
1925	15	2,089	observed
1926	15	2,074	observed
1927	6	3,780	observed
1928	10	2,659	observed
1929	18	1,793	observed
1930	14	2,079	observed
1931	12	2,207	observed
1932	6	3,361	observed
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	7	2,973	observed
1935	7	2,951	observed
1936	8	2,629	observed
1937	8	2,680	observed
1938	9	2,479	observed
1939	6	3,113	observed
1940	5	3,459	observed
1941	5	3,505	observed
1942	5	3,560	observed
1943	5	3,538	observed
1944	7	2,862	observed
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	6	3,173	observed
1947	5	3,733	observed
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	6	3,452	observed
1955	6	3,505	observed
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	8	3,041	observed
1963	6	3,646	observed
1964	5	4,039	observed
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	no value	no value	not covered
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Bernhardt” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

No historical attestations or sourced notable bearers are recorded yet. Historical databases are being evaluated for reuse permission; nothing is listed until a record can be cited.

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Bernhardt with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms6

Wikidata Q18398303CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: BernhardtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: BernhardtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: BernhardtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: BernhardtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: BernieCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:De-Bernhardt.oggCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Official statisticsPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates3

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Bernhardt

Old High German origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “bear” + “hard, strong”

Sources for this account (4)

Wiktionary: BernhardtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: BernhardtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: BernhardtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Chinese Wiktionary: BernhardtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Where Bernhardt is used

Explore official naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Bernhardt’s connections around the world.

3 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Official statistics

United States, 1964: 5 boys (rank 4039).

Explore United States

4 of 7 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Bernhardt

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 1964: 5; applications; Rank #4,039
Peak year: 1915; 19 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Bernhardt in United States, boys: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	5	1,373	observed
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	8	1,290	observed
1912	13	1,353	observed
1913	14	1,441	observed
1914	12	1,868	observed
1915	19	1,600	observed
1916	15	1,949	observed
1917	19	1,693	observed
1918	17	1,905	observed
1919	16	1,973	observed
1920	18	1,885	observed
1921	15	2,152	observed
1922	12	2,486	observed
1923	17	1,941	observed
1924	13	2,347	observed
1925	15	2,089	observed
1926	15	2,074	observed
1927	6	3,780	observed
1928	10	2,659	observed
1929	18	1,793	observed
1930	14	2,079	observed
1931	12	2,207	observed
1932	6	3,361	observed
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	7	2,973	observed
1935	7	2,951	observed
1936	8	2,629	observed
1937	8	2,680	observed
1938	9	2,479	observed
1939	6	3,113	observed
1940	5	3,459	observed
1941	5	3,505	observed
1942	5	3,560	observed
1943	5	3,538	observed
1944	7	2,862	observed
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	6	3,173	observed
1947	5	3,733	observed
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	6	3,452	observed
1955	6	3,505	observed
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	8	3,041	observed
1963	6	3,646	observed
1964	5	4,039	observed
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	no value	no value	not covered
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms6

Wikidata Q18398303CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: BernhardtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: BernhardtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: BernhardtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: BernhardtCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: BernieCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:De-Bernhardt.oggCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Official statisticsPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates3

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Bernhardt

About Bernhardt

Old High German origin

Where Bernhardt is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Bernie

Bern

Bernhart

Berny

Bernard

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

Bernhardt

About Bernhardt

Old High German origin

Where Bernhardt is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Bernie

Bern

Bernhart

Berny

Bernard

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Bernhardt

Old High German origin

Where Bernhardt is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Bernhardt

Old High German origin

Where Bernhardt is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page