Meaning not yet researched.
Bernardo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 140 in 2025. Its best rank was #672 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #672 in 1994; #1,347 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bernardo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,347 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #672.
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Bernardo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 140 boys in 2025. Peak: #672 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 240 (1995).
In 2025, 140 US boys were named Bernardo, making it the 1,347th most common boys’ name of the year, down 6 places from #1,341 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 143 boys named Bernardo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #672, reached in 1994. The most boys given the name in a single year was 240, in 1995. For comparison, it was #1,340 in 2015 and #978 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bernardo in 123 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 6 babies. In all, 11,175 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,977 babies named Bernardo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,377 US boys were named Bernardo; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 165. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,201 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bernardo ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #335 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Bernard (201,070 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Bernardo in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 16 | #335 | #408 |
| Florida | 20 | #756 | #1,285 |
| California | 30 | #807 | #762 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,040 | — |
| Texas | 20 | #1,101 | #746 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,259 | — |
| New York | 5 | #1,798 | #1,875 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 140 | #1,347 |
| 2024 | — | — | 143 | #1,341 |
| 2023 | — | — | 146 | #1,310 |
| 2022 | — | — | 146 | #1,301 |
| 2021 | — | — | 121 | #1,480 |
| 2020 | — | — | 114 | #1,490 |
| 2019 | — | — | 165 | #1,171 |
| 2018 | — | — | 140 | #1,300 |
| 2017 | — | — | 125 | #1,404 |
| 2016 | — | — | 137 | #1,314 |
| 2015 | — | — | 131 | #1,340 |
| 2014 | — | — | 108 | #1,493 |
| 2013 | — | — | 132 | #1,307 |
| 2012 | — | — | 118 | #1,409 |
| 2011 | — | — | 138 | #1,251 |
| 2010 | — | — | 140 | #1,251 |
| 2009 | — | — | 167 | #1,106 |
| 2008 | — | — | 170 | #1,091 |
| 2007 | — | — | 202 | #971 |
| 2006 | — | — | 188 | #985 |
| 2005 | — | — | 182 | #959 |
| 2004 | — | — | 197 | #879 |
| 2003 | — | — | 164 | #975 |
| 2002 | — | — | 195 | #848 |
| 2001 | — | — | 189 | #849 |
| 2000 | — | — | 173 | #899 |
| 1999 | — | — | 169 | #891 |
| 1998 | — | — | 193 | #791 |
| 1997 | — | — | 192 | #776 |
| 1996 | — | — | 212 | #726 |
| 1995 | — | — | 240 | #683 |
| 1994 | — | — | 236 | #672 |
| 1993 | — | — | 202 | #733 |
| 1992 | — | — | 162 | #830 |
| 1991 | — | — | 193 | #731 |
| 1990 | — | — | 178 | #761 |
| 1989 | — | — | 180 | #737 |
| 1988 | — | — | 164 | #738 |
| 1987 | — | — | 124 | #837 |
| 1986 | — | — | 157 | #722 |
| 1985 | — | — | 109 | #866 |
| 1984 | — | — | 102 | #871 |
| 1983 | — | — | 127 | #773 |
| 1982 | — | — | 115 | #827 |
| 1981 | — | — | 145 | #717 |
| 1980 | — | — | 144 | #729 |
| 1979 | — | — | 115 | #813 |
| 1978 | — | — | 91 | #901 |
| 1977 | — | — | 93 | #875 |
| 1976 | — | — | 131 | #731 |
| 1975 | — | — | 111 | #788 |
| 1974 | — | — | 115 | #755 |
| 1973 | — | — | 112 | #757 |
| 1972 | — | — | 106 | #776 |
| 1971 | — | — | 105 | #787 |
| 1970 | — | — | 93 | #835 |
| 1969 | — | — | 93 | #800 |
| 1968 | — | — | 74 | #844 |
| 1967 | — | — | 85 | #791 |
| 1966 | — | — | 70 | #871 |
| 1965 | — | — | 83 | #809 |
| 1964 | — | — | 81 | #846 |
| 1963 | — | — | 77 | #855 |
| 1962 | — | — | 75 | #881 |
| 1961 | — | — | 68 | #929 |
| 1960 | — | — | 68 | #916 |
| 1959 | — | — | 83 | #834 |
| 1958 | — | — | 76 | #867 |
| 1957 | — | — | 52 | #1,052 |
| 1956 | — | — | 52 | #1,046 |
| 1955 | — | — | 55 | #1,011 |
| 1954 | — | — | 70 | #877 |
| 1953 | — | — | 51 | #1,016 |
| 1952 | — | — | 63 | #883 |
| 1951 | — | — | 48 | #1,022 |
| 1950 | — | — | 50 | #978 |
| 1949 | — | — | 65 | #849 |
| 1948 | — | — | 52 | #965 |
| 1947 | — | — | 54 | #969 |
| 1946 | — | — | 53 | #914 |
| 1945 | — | — | 47 | #943 |
| 1944 | — | — | 41 | #1,022 |
| 1943 | — | — | 41 | #1,057 |
| 1942 | — | — | 33 | #1,215 |
| 1941 | — | — | 33 | #1,154 |
| 1940 | — | — | 29 | #1,251 |
| 1939 | — | — | 35 | #1,086 |
| 1938 | — | — | 26 | #1,313 |
| 1937 | — | — | 35 | #1,097 |
| 1936 | — | — | 27 | #1,273 |
| 1935 | — | — | 35 | #1,099 |
| 1934 | — | — | 30 | #1,217 |
| 1933 | — | — | 25 | #1,333 |
| 1932 | — | — | 37 | #1,113 |
| 1931 | — | — | 42 | #1,034 |
| 1930 | — | — | 43 | #1,054 |
| 1929 | — | — | 43 | #1,046 |
| 1928 | — | — | 47 | #1,007 |
| 1927 | — | — | 42 | #1,099 |
| 1926 | — | — | 36 | #1,192 |
| 1925 | — | — | 42 | #1,077 |
| 1924 | — | — | 34 | #1,250 |
| 1923 | — | — | 45 | #1,059 |
| 1922 | — | — | 22 | #1,653 |
| 1921 | — | — | 32 | #1,300 |
| 1920 | — | — | 40 | #1,120 |
| 1919 | — | — | 34 | #1,207 |
| 1918 | — | — | 39 | #1,096 |
| 1917 | — | — | 22 | #1,536 |
| 1916 | — | — | 25 | #1,380 |
| 1915 | — | — | 16 | #1,796 |
| 1914 | — | — | 12 | #1,879 |
| 1913 | — | — | 27 | #951 |
| 1912 | — | — | 11 | #1,534 |
| 1911 | — | — | 11 | #1,047 |
| 1910 | — | — | 7 | #1,326 |
| 1909 | — | — | 7 | #1,165 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,390 |
| 1907 | — | — | 8 | #1,007 |
| 1906 | — | — | 7 | #1,016 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,161 |
| 1895 | — | — | 6 | #991 |
| 1888 | — | — | 6 | #927 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).