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Berend

Boys' name

Bear + hard, brave, through Bernhard

Berend has been given to 38 babies in the U.S. since 2003. 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 2024, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Berend, 2024

1 in 334,000

Berend over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Berend: meaning, origin, and history

Bear + hard, brave, through Bernhard

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Berend means

Berend belongs to the name family reached through Berend → Bernhard → *Bernuharduz. Its meaning is “bear + hard, brave”.

Origin, language, and formation

Berend is used in Dutch and German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bernhard and *Bernuharduz.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Berend is pronounced /ˈbeː.rənt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 38 boys were recorded with the name Berend between 2003 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2024; its best national rank was #7,838 in 2024.

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 Berend?

Berend had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 334,000
10 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 172,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
231,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Berend 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 2024 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 231,706 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Berend. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Berends were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Berend was born before 2019 — so the typical Berend is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
38
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.4% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Berend 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 2024 (10)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,838
2024

Spellings of Berend

Berend is not the most common spelling — Brent is, with 79.6% against Berend's 0.02%.

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.

Berend around the world

Where Berend ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1960–1960
    #468
    in 1960

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Berend 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
—
Best rank ever
#7,838
2024
Peak year
2024
10 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
38
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Berend

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

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Sibling names for Berend

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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