Bernd
The boy's name Bernd has been in the national records since 1957, with 97 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 1979. About 80 Bernds are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 61.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Bernd
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 97
- Estimated living today
- 80
- Median age today
- 61
- Peak year
- 1960
- Best rank
- 2,535th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1957
How old the living Bernds are
born that year still alive today
Of the 97 babies given the name since 1957, about 80 are alive — 82 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1964 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Bernds
- Bernd Leno (born 1992)German association football player
- Bernd Schuster (born 1959)German association football manager and former player
- Bernd Hölzenbein (1946–2024)German footballer
- Bernd Schneider (born 1973)German association football player
- Bernd Eichinger (1949–2011)German film producer, director, and screenwriter
- Bernd Förster (born 1956)German footballer
- Bernd Bransch (1944–2022)East German footballer
- Bernd Schneider (born 1964)German racing driver
People named Bernd with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1960
The most popular boys’ names the year Bernd peaked:
Bernd elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria boys | Bernd | 910 | 43rd |
| Belgium boys | Bernd | 182 | 473rd |
| France boys | Bernd | 50 | 376th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Bernd: rank by region
In 2013, Bernd was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Bernd | 847 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Bernd among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Bernd | 14 | 23 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Bernd lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 203 men called Bernd were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Bernd | 29 | 0.054 | 1,482 |
| Balears, Illes | Bernd | 28 | 0.045 | 1,294 |
| Palmas, Las | Bernd | 25 | 0.043 | 1,782 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Bernd | 32 | 0.032 | 1,879 |
| Málaga | Bernd | 21 | 0.024 | 1,905 |
| Girona | Bernd | 5 | 0.012 | 3,502 |
Listed in 7 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 45 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Bernd against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.