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Bardo

Boys' name

Beard

Bardo has been given to 39 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1976, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Bardo, 2007

1 in 666,000

Bardo over time, 1880–2025

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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bardo: meaning, origin, and history

Beard

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bardo means

Bardo means “beard”, associated with bart.

Origin, language, and formation

Bardo is used in Old Dutch.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 39 boys were recorded with the name Bardo between 1974 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1976; its best national rank was #4,469 in 1976.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bardo?

Bardo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007
1 in 666,000
6 of 3,997,748 births
Among boys only
1 in 346,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2007
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
461,839 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bardo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 461,839 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bardo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bardos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bardo was born before 1997 — so the typical Bardo is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
46.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
39
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 46.2% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Bardo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1976 (7)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,469
1976

Spellings of Bardo

Bardo is not the most common spelling — Barry is, with 32.2% against Bardo's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Bardo is used

Across 1910–2025, Bardo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bardo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bardo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,469
1976
Peak year
1976
7 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
39
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bardo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Bardo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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