Bernardo
2025 SSA
About Bernardo
This Latinate form of Bernard hovered in the lower regions of the US Top 1000 from the late 1940s until 2006, possibly inspired by the character in West Side Story. It remains popular in Portugal and it does have a little more flair than the grandpa style Bernard.
Pronounced ber-NAR-do.
As of October 2026, Bernardo ranked #1347 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #672 in 1994.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,493 | 108 | 56.2 |
| 2015 | #1,339 | 131 | 68.3 |
| 2016 | #1,314 | 137 | 72.2 |
| 2017 | #1,403 | 125 | 67.5 |
| 2018 | #1,299 | 140 | 77.1 |
| 2019 | #1,177 | 164 | 91.4 |
| 2020 | #1,489 | 114 | 66 |
| 2021 | #1,478 | 121 | 69.2 |
| 2022 | #1,301 | 146 | 83.6 |
| 2023 | #1,308 | 146 | 85.4 |
| 2024 | #1,334 | 143 | 83 |
| 2025 | #1,347 | 140 | 82 |
World rankings
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Bernardo on lists
Famous Bernardos
- Bernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães
Brazilian novelist
- Bernardo Mota Veiga de Carvalho e Silva
Portuguese footballer
- Bernardo Bertolucci
Italian film director
- Bernardo Vicente de Gálvez y Madrid
Viscount of Galveston and Count of Gálvez, Spanish soldier and governor of Cuba
- Bernardo Corradi
Italian footballer
- (Fernando José) Bernardo Tavares
Portuguese footballer and manager
- Bernardo O'Higgins
Chilean revolutionary
Bernardo in pop culture
- Bernardo
character in Shakespeare's play Hamlet
- Bernardo
servant in the Zorro films
- Bernardo O'Reilly
character in film The Magnificent Seven
- Bernardo de la Paz
character in Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- Bernardo Nunez
character in musical "West Side Story"