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Bernabe

#5,418 in 2025Boys' name

English equivalent of Barnabas

Bernabe has been given to 1,824 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #5,418 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Bernabe, 2025

1 in 195,000

Bernabe over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bernabe: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Barnabas

Spanish

What Bernabe means

Bernabe is a English equivalent of Barnabas.

Origin, language, and formation

Bernabe is used in Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Bernabe comes through Spanish Bernabé.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Barnabas.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tagalog, Bernabe is pronounced /beɾnaˈbe/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,824 boys were recorded with the name Bernabe between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,535 in 1930.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,013 in 2020 to #5,418 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,371 in 2015 to #5,418 in 2025.

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 Bernabe?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,418
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bernabe 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 2025 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bernabe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bernabes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bernabe was born before 1982 — so the typical Bernabe is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
15.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,429
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Choose a decade

1990s — 15.2% of all recorded uses (277).

Is Bernabe 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
−509
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+595
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+953
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.31×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
45.9%
Peak was 1993 (37)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,535
1930

Spellings of Bernabe

Bernabe is not the most common spelling — Bernard is, with 93.3% against Bernabe's 0.85%.

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 Bernabe is used

Across 1910–2025, Bernabe was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 36,905 across all states with data. It was least common in New Mexico (1 in 50,000).

24 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 50,000

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. Bernabe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bernabe around the world

Where Bernabe 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.

  • France
    1900–1971
    #2,076
    in 1971

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Bernabe by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,418
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 595
Best rank ever
#1,535
1930
Peak year
1993
37 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,824
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Bernabe

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

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Sibling names for Bernabe

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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