The Bernauer surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 523 people carried this name — #41,579 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 555,600 people counted. That is up 18% from 443 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Bernauer surname
From Bernau + -er.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Bernauer» (German), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
165 people named Bernauer live in Switzerland.
They live in 11 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 121 people named Bernauer.
17 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 14 départements, most often Haut-Rhin.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Who carried it
People named Bernauer,
with a public archive behind them.
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Agnes Bernauer 1410–1435 -
Rudolf Bernauer 1880–1953 · screenwriter -
Kaspar Bernauer 1385–1450 · barber surgeon
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Blasius Bernauer 1740–1818 · organ builder
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Izidor Bernauer 1860–1945 · mechanical engineer
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Josef Bernauer 1861–1937 · composer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bernauer.
- Bernardo 7,003 · U.S. census
- Bernardon 103 · U.S. census
- Bernardoni 126 · U.S. census
- Bernardy 685 · U.S. census
- Bernasconi 499 · U.S. census
- Bernat 1,522 · U.S. census
- Berndt 6,081 · U.S. census
- Berne 447 · U.S. census
- Bernel 127 · U.S. census
- Berner 4,826 · U.S. census
- Bernert 327 · U.S. census
- Bernes 140 · U.S. census
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