The baby name Bernarda is a Girl name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced ber-NAR-dah.
The baby name Bernarda is a girl name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced ber-NAR-dah.
Bernarda is Italian, Latin, Spanish in Origin.
Bernarda is a feminine Romance and Central European form of the Germanic name Bernhard, recorded in Old High German as a compound of bero, bear, and hart or harti, hard, firm, brave. Medieval Latin documents used Bernardus for the masculine, from which feminine Bernarda was formed with the Latin and Romance feminine ending -a. Its literal sense is bear-brave or hardy as a bear, with the second element carrying both physical toughness and courage.
The name spread in Christian Europe chiefly through devotion to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, the 12th-century Cistercian abbot, and appears in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Croatian, and other Catholic naming contexts. Federico García Lorca’s 1936 play La casa de Bernarda Alba gave the name a sharp literary association in Spanish. Related forms include Bernardina, Bernardine, Bernadette, and Germanic Bernhardina. In the United States it has remained rare, with small SSA counts concentrated before mid-century.
| Bernarda Fink Bernarda Fink is best known as an Argentine-Slovenian mezzo-soprano celebrated for her work in classical and vocal music. Born in Buenos Aires on 29 August 1955 to Slovene parents who had emigrated from Yugoslavia, she studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. |
Based on birth registration data from national statistics agencies.
| Country | Gender | Year | Rank | Born | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HN | Girls | 0 | #38 | 1 | 884 |
| SI | 0 | #73 | 8 | 1,612 | |
| AO | 0 | #75 | 3 | 2,729 | |
| SI | Girls | 0 | #104 | 78 | 2,769 |
| BN | Girls | 0 | #114 | 1 | 5,459 |
| HR | Girls | 0 | #143 | 232 | 3,687 |
| HR | 0 | #146 | 34 | 2,081 | |
| AO | Girls | 0 | #152 | 58 | 4,575 |
| MT | Girls | 0 | #153 | 1 | 3,773 |
| CL | Girls | 0 | #156 | 3,025 | 14,098 |
| CR | 0 | #163 | 3 | 5,526 | |
| PR | Girls | 0 | #166 | 2 | 3,171 |
| UY | 0 | #182 | 1 | 2,477 | |
| LT | Girls | 0 | #200 | 1 | 1,904 |
| PL | 0 | #211 | 2 | 2,600 | |
| AL | Girls | 0 | #226 | 2 | 4,141 |
| EC | Girls | 0 | #229 | 11 | 3,650 |
| PL | Girls | 0 | #234 | 137 | 5,096 |
| NA | Girls | 0 | #237 | 1 | 7,146 |
| AO | Boys | 0 | #249 | 1 | 5,568 |
| GR | Girls | 0 | #249 | 1 | 6,293 |
| HR | Boys | 0 | #256 | 4 | 3,997 |
| GT | 0 | #300 | 15 | 5,948 | |
| PE | 0 | #328 | 2 | 6,350 | |
| DK | Girls | 0 | #329 | 1 | 7,429 |
| QA | Girls | 0 | #343 | 1 | 15,378 |
| CL | 0 | #346 | 67 | 6,867 | |
| CZ | Girls | 0 | #351 | 1 | 5,378 |
| MU | Girls | 0 | #358 | 5 | 8,539 |
| CR | Girls | 0 | #374 | 162 | 11,342 |
| BO | 0 | #401 | 8 | 6,868 | |
| Austria | Girls | 0 | #411 | 10 | 1,885 |
| UY | Boys | 0 | #413 | 1 | 5,922 |
| CO | Girls | 0 | #423 | 1,203 | 16,140 |
| PT | Girls | 0 | #426 | 26 | 7,952 |
| PH | Girls | 0 | #427 | 3 | 13,098 |
| PA | Girls | 0 | #428 | 54 | 9,861 |
| GT | Girls | 0 | #445 | 61 | 7,500 |
| MX | 0 | #445 | 1 | 8,339 | |
| CO | 0 | #456 | 25 | 7,768 | |
| AR | Boys | 0 | #481 | 3 | 7,628 |
| UY | Girls | 0 | #497 | 14 | 6,731 |
| GT | Boys | 0 | #499 | 1 | 7,625 |
| CR | Boys | 0 | #509 | 2 | 10,188 |
| RU | Girls | 0 | #521 | 3 | 11,913 |
| BO | Girls | 0 | #526 | 86 | 9,488 |
| AR | Girls | 0 | #532 | 68 | 8,289 |
| PS | Girls | 0 | #547 | 1 | 10,981 |
| KW | Girls | 0 | #561 | 1 | 19,177 |
| AE | Girls | 0 | #595 | 3 | 20,968 |
| BO | Boys | 0 | #622 | 1 | 9,244 |
| SG | Girls | 0 | #630 | 3 | 18,916 |
| CL | Boys | 0 | #641 | 25 | 13,390 |
| IL | Girls | 0 | #645 | 1 | 11,648 |
| HK | Girls | 0 | #650 | 1 | 16,104 |
| BR | Boys | 0 | #785 | 1 | 12,213 |
| Spain | Girls | 0 | #809 | 175 | 5,561 |
| Germany | Girls | 0 | #827 | 12 | 4,949 |
| MX | Girls | 0 | #845 | 361 | 17,781 |
| BR | Girls | 0 | #864 | 78 | 12,708 |
| PE | Girls | 0 | #867 | 77 | 14,861 |
| CO | Boys | 0 | #906 | 15 | 15,656 |
| NL | Girls | 0 | #919 | 37 | 5,933 |
| EG | Boys | 0 | #925 | 1 | 15,035 |
| SA | Girls | 0 | #1,014 | 1 | 25,931 |
| MX | Boys | 0 | #1,027 | 7 | 16,355 |
| MA | 0 | #1,199 | 1 | 20,986 | |
| DZ | 0 | #1,234 | 1 | 20,130 | |
| ZA | Girls | 0 | #1,234 | 3 | 25,928 |
| ZA | Boys | 0 | #1,272 | 1 | 25,619 |
| IT | Girls | 0 | #1,313 | 134 | 9,415 |
Bernarda is popular in 47 countries — most recent births per country:
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