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Bernardino

Boys' name

Diminutive of Bernardo

Bernardino has been given to 1,649 babies in the U.S. since 1911. 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 1974, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Bernardino, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bernardino: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Bernardo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bernardino means

Bernardino is a diminutive of Bernardo.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Bernardino is used in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ber.nar.ˈdi.no/, /beɾ.naɾ.ˈði.no/, /bɨɾ.naɾ.ˈdi.nu/ and /beh.nah.ˈd͡ʒĩ.nu/ for Bernardino.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Bernardino → Bernardo → Bernardus → *Bernuharduz. The family’s meaning is “bear + hard, brave”, recorded in Proto-Germanic with the source elements bernuz and harduz.

Origin, language, and formation

Bernardino is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bernardo.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Bernardino is pronounced /ber.narˈdi.no/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,649 boys were recorded with the name Bernardino between 1911 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1974; its best national rank was #1,506 in 1949.

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 Bernardino?

Bernardino had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bernardino 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bernardino. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bernardinos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bernardino was born before 1971 — so the typical Bernardino is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
13.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,165
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 13.0% of all recorded uses (214).

Is Bernardino 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1974 (30)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,506
1949

Spellings of Bernardino

Bernardino is not the most common spelling — Bernardo is, with 87.1% against Bernardino's 12.9%.

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 Bernardino is used

Across 1910–2025, Bernardino was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 88,758 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 100,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7New York1 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. Bernardino has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bernardino around the world

Where Bernardino 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
    1925–1986
    #2,641
    in 1986
  • South Australia
    1953–1996
    #540
    in 1996

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bernardino 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
#1,506
1949
Peak year
1974
30 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
1,649
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bernardino

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

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Sibling names for Bernardino

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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