Bernhardt

At the 2020 census, 6,862 Americans bore the surname Bernhardt — 4,961st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 43,600.

By the numbers

People: 6,862
Rank: 4,961st
How common: 1 in 43,600
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

Origin German

German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Jewish surname, variant of Bernhard.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923)French stage actress, painter and sculptor
Curtis Bernhardt (1899–1981)German film director
David L. Bernhardt (born 1969)53rd United States Secretary of the Interior
Hans Bernhardt (1906–1940)German cyclist
Daniel Bernhardt (born 1965)Swiss actor
Edgar Bernhardt (born 1986)Kyrgyz footballer

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

Surnames like Bernhardt

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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.