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The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic Bernhard is composed from the two elements bern "bear" and hard "brave, hardy". Its native Old English cognate was Beornheard, which was replaced or merged with the French form Bernard that was brought to England after the Norman Conquest. The name Bernhard was notably popular among Old Frisian speakers. Its wider use was popularized due to Saint Bernhard of Clairvaux (canonized in 1174). In Ireland, the name was an anglicized form of Brian.

Geographical distribution

Bernard is the second most common surname in France.

As of 2014, 42.2% of all known bearers of the surname Bernard were residents of France (frequency 1:392), 12.5% of the United States (1:7,203), 7.0% of Haiti (1:382), 6.6% of Tanzania (1:1,961), 4.8% of Canada (1:1,896), 3.6% of Nigeria (1:12,221), 2.7% of Burundi (1:894), 1.9% of Belgium (1:1,500), 1.6% of Rwanda (1:1,745), 1.2% of Germany (1:16,397), 1.2% of Jamaica (1:595), 1.1% of Ghana (1:6,179), 1.0% of England (1:13,691) and 1.0% of Madagascar (1:6,098).

In France, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:392) in the following regions:

  1. Collectivity of Saint Martin (1:60)
  2. Saint Barthélemy (1:189)
  3. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (1:260)
  4. Nouvelle-Aquitaine (1:283)
  5. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (1:296)
  6. Brittany (1:333)
  7. Pays de la Loire (1:336)
  8. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (1:348)
  9. Hauts-de-France (1:391)

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