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Boy's name · #1362 in the US (2025) · Vintage
Bernard is an heirloom: its strongest era came around 1919, when it ranked #45. It has thinned since but never left the records — about 200,000 boys since 1880, ranked #1362 today. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 17 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#159 in Poland (2025) · #251 in Sweden (2025) · #277 in Norway (2025) · #509 in Ireland (2025) · #647 in Scotland (2025) · #782 in England & Wales (2025) · #974 in Belgium (2025) · #1,443 in Canada (2025) · #2,092 in Ecuador (2025) · #3,142 in Italy (2024) · #3,644 in France (2025) · #339 in N. Ireland (2024) and 6 more.
Among 6,734 notable people named Bernard:
Political leaders appear 1.93× more often than among typical names — e.g. Bernard Cazeneuve, Prime Minister of France from 2016 to 2017 (born 1963).
Similar names: Bernardo · Howard · Benito · Norman · Clifford · Leonard
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