Bernardo

Where Bernardo comes from

Bernardo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1887
    Bernardo Houssay born
    Argentine physician
  2. 1888
    First appearance
    #917 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1941
    Bernardo Bertolucci born
    Italian film director and screenwriter
  4. 1994
    Peak, #672
    236 babies named Bernardo — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,407.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Bernardo Bertolucci · Italian film director and screenwriter, 1941–2018
  • Bernardo Houssay · Argentine physician, 1887–1971
  • Bernardo Silva · Portuguese association football player, born 1994
  • Bernardo O'Higgins · Chilean independence leader, 1778–1842
  • Bernardo Bellotto · Italian artist, 1721–1780

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.