Bernhard
Bernhard is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 591st, in 1887.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191655 births
- Best rank
- #591in 1887
- Since 1880
- 1,666people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,666 boys have been named Bernhard in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 55 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 55 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 18 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Bernhard | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 51 | |
| 1890s | 53 | |
| 1900s | 27 | |
| 1910s | 286 | |
| 1920s | 314 | |
| 1930s | 227 | |
| 1940s | 161 | |
| 1950s | 179 | |
| 1960s | 188 | |
| 1970s | 72 | |
| 1980s | 38 | |
| 1990s | 39 | |
| 2000s | 10 | |
| 2010s | 15 | |
| 2020s | 6 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Bernhard was the 844th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1916 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Bernhard
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cloydpeak 1918
- Llewellynpeak 1916
- Hughpeak 1916
- Omerpeak 1918
- Ernstpeak 1917
- Arthurpeak 1921
- Harmonpeak 1921
- Ferdinandpeak 1918
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.