Bernhard

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Male Name

Usage

Old Norse
Old Swedish
Old Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Icelandic
Faroese
Finnish
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

German younger form of Berinhart

Related Names

See Berinhart

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Bernhardintytär
Bernhardsen
Bernhardson
Bernhardssen
Bernhardsson
Bernhardssøn
Bernhardsøn

Female

Bernharddatter
Bernhardinpoika
Bernhardsdatter
Bernhardsdotter
Bernhardsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Bernhard
Genitive:	Bernhards

- Faroese
Nominative:	Bernhard
Accusative:	Bernhard
Dative:	Bernhardi
Genitive:	Bernhards

- Finnish
Nominative:	Bernhard
Genitive:	Bernhardin
Partitive:	Bernhardia

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Bernhard
Accusative:	Bernhard
Dative:	Bernhard
Genitive:	Bernhards

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Bernhard
Genitive:	Bernhards

- Swedish
Nominative:	Bernhard
Genitive:	Bernhards

Name Days

Denmark

20 August

Faroe Islands

20 August

Norway

20 August

Finland (Swedish Language)

19 April

Sweden

20 August

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name
• Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark:
  • 10th century
• Sweden:
  • 1289
  • late 13th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1885-1909
  • -1929
• Denmark:
  • -1910
• Norway:
  • 1890-1930

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark:
  • Lolland-Falster
• Norway:
  • Vest-Agder
  • Vestlandet
• Sweden:
  • Bohuslän (19th century) see map
  • Sydsverige
  • Gotland

Namesakes

• Bernhard Herzog (= Duke) von Sachsen-Weimar, 16th August, 1604 - 18th July, 1639, German general in the Thirty Years' War, who faught for the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf
• Bernhard Severin Ingemann (28 May 1789 – 24 February 1862), Danish novelist and poet
• Bernhard Anders Christensen (9 March 1906 - 20 March 2004), Danish composer and organist

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 16724 people were named Bernhard (percentage of first or only given name: 8 %)

• Bernhard is an IKEA product name (bar stool/chair)

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		422	4875	0	2	422	4873
Finland		n.a.	4739	0	0	n.a.	4739
Denmark		278	n.a.	0	n.a.	278	n.a.
Iceland		15	29	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		6	21	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		695	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	695	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

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Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Bernhard (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.