Bernard
62
Babies in 2024
+121%
10-year change
2024
Peak · 62
+59%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Bernard
Bernard is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (62) are up 121% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Bernard reached its peak in 2024, when 62 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #613 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 62 represents 100% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 781 boys have been officially registered with the name Bernard in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 400 boys were registered with the name, starting from 28 in 2014 and ending at 62 in 2024.