The Bernardin surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 547 people carried this name — #38,079 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 500,000 people counted.
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In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 1,930 people named Bernardin.
34 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 83 départements, most often Vosges.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
37 people named Bernardin live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Bern.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Bernardin in American newspapers,
1873–1935.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 1,983 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Bernardin,
with a public archive behind them.
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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 1737–1814 · writer -
Charles Bernardin Beslay 1768–1839 · politician -
Camille Bernardin 1831–1894 · lawyer -
Charles Bernardin 1860–1939 · lawyer -
Edith Bernardin 1903–1994 · librarian
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 34 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bernardin.
- Bernabe 3,103 · U.S. census
- Bernabei 399 · U.S. census
- Bernadin 236 · U.S. census
- Bernal 29,418 · U.S. census
- Bernard 36,546 · U.S. census
- Bernardi 2,884 · U.S. census
- Bernardini 1,228 · U.S. census
- Bernardino 2,073 · U.S. census
- Bernardo 5,939 · U.S. census
- Bernardon 106 · U.S. census
- Bernardoni 180 · U.S. census
- Bernardy 684 · U.S. census
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