Bernal

Bernal is the 883rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 38,729 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 7,718.

By the numbers

People: 38,729
Rank: 883rd
How common: 1 in 7,718
Per 100,000: 13.0

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bernal described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 88.3%
White, not Hispanic 7.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Bernal

Gael García Bernal (born 1978)Mexican actor and producer
John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971)Irish scientist
Egan Bernal (born 1997)Colombian cyclist
Marc Bernal (born 2007)Spanish footballer
José Ortiz Bernal (born 1977)Spanish footballer
Lorena Bernal (born 1981)Spanish actor-model
Martin Bernal (1937–2013)British political historian

People named Bernal with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Bernal

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.