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Bernard (Bernhard) is a French and West Germanic masculine given name. It has West Germanic origin and is also a surname.<ref>Albert Dauzat, Noms et prénoms de France, Librairie Larousse 1980. p. 38, New completed edition by Marie-Thérèse Morlet.</ref>

The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic Bernhard is composed from the two elements bern "bear" and hard "brave, hardy".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}. T. F. Hoad, English Etymology, Oxford University Press 1993. p. 36.</ref> Its native Old English cognate was Beornheard, which was replaced or merged with the French form Bernard that was brought to England after the Norman Conquest. The name Bernhard was notably popular among Old Frisian speakers.<ref>Die Kosenamen der Germanen: Eine Studie, Franz Stark, 1868 (German)</ref> Its wider use was popularized due to Saint Bernhard of Clairvaux (canonized in 1174). In Ireland, the name was an anglicized form of Brian.

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Bernard is the second most common surname in France.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

As of 2014, 42.2% of all known bearers of the surname Bernard were residents of France (frequency 1:392), 12.5% of the United States (1:7,203), 7.0% of Haiti (1:382), 6.6% of Tanzania (1:1,961), 4.8% of Canada (1:1,896), 3.6% of Nigeria (1:12,221), 2.7% of Burundi (1:894), 1.9% of Belgium (1:1,500), 1.6% of Rwanda (1:1,745), 1.2% of Germany (1:16,397), 1.2% of Jamaica (1:595), 1.1% of Ghana (1:6,179), 1.0% of England (1:13,691) and 1.0% of Madagascar (1:6,098).

In France, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:392) in the following regions:<ref name="bernard2014">Bernard surname distribution</ref>

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The following people and items share the name Bernard:

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  • Andy Bernard, character on the United States television series The Office

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