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Bernerd

Bernerd reached its high-water mark in 1920 at number 1,592, and has been recorded 527 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1976. About 140 Bernerds are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 69.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Bernerd

By the numbers

Total US births
527
Estimated living today
140
Median age today
69
Peak year
1920
Best rank
1,592nd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1911

How old the living Bernerds are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 527 babies given the name since 1911, about 140 are alive — 26 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1956 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.

Where Bernerd is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1920

The most popular boys’ names the year Bernerd peaked:

All the names of 1920

Related names

Bernerd against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.