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Bern

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Short form of German names beginning with Bern-

Old High German bero = 'bear', see BJÖRN [1]

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Related Names

Bern ♂
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 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Berne ♂
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 Finish Swedish
Berni ♂
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 Danish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Bernie ♂
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 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Berno ♂
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 Danish Swedish
Berny ♂
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 Finish Norwegian Swedish
Päärni ♂
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 Finish

See also Bero

For female forms see Berna

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Bernsen Denmark Norway
Bernson Norway Sweden
Bernssen Denmark Norway
Bernsson Sweden

Female

Berndatter Denmark Norway
Bernsdatter Denmark Norway
Bernsdotter Sweden

Combinations

For combinations see BJÖRN (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Bern
Genitive: Berns
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Bern
Genitive: Berns
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Bern
Genitive: Berns

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 130 people were named Bern (percentage of first or only given name: 73 %) [5]

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 Sweden[6]
19 83 0 0 19 83
Denmark Denmark[7]
11
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 11
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
 9 0 0
n.a.
 9
Norway Norway[9]
11
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 11
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Bern.


References

  1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. ↑ Danish Family Search, https://www.danishfamilysearch.dk
  3. ↑ Digitalarkivet at arkivverket.no, http://www.arkivverket.no
  4. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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