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BERNARD

in Minnesota

There are 588 people with the last name "BERNARD" in Minnesota.

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Ranking in Minnesota

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BERNARD 701
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  1. is 697th most common Lamb
  2. is 698th most common Ruiz
  3. is 699th most common Dennis
  4. is 700th most common Huynh
  5. is 701st most common Bernard
  6. is 702nd most common Cain
  7. is 703rd most common Nelsen
  8. is 704th most common Hinrichs
  9. is 705th most common Lloyd

Most Common First Names for BERNARD

Matthew, William, David, Kathleen, Brian, James, Mark, Michael, Ann, Robert

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Meaning & History

1. English, French, Dutch, Polish, Czech, and Slovenian: from a Germanic personal name (see Bernhard). The popularity of the personal name was greatly increased by virtue of its having been borne by St. Bernard of Clairvaux (c.1090–1153), founder and abbot of the Cistercian monastery at Clairvaux.

2. Americanized form of German Bernhard or any of the other cognates in European languages; for forms see Hanks and Hodges 1988.

FOREBEARS The first bearer of the name in Canada was from the Lorraine region of France. He is documented in Quebec city in 1666 as Jean Bernard. He and some of his descendants bore the secondary surnames Anse and Hanse, because his original forename must have been Hans (the German equivalent of French Jean, English John). Another bearer, from La Rochelle, is documented in Quebec city in 1676; and a third, from the Poitou region of France, was also documented in Quebec city, in 1713, with the secondary surname Léveillé. Other documented secondary names are Jolicoeur, Larivière, and Lajoie.The Bernard families of LA have origins in France, Acadia, the West Indies, and Germany; they have been in the U.S. since the earliest days of settlement.

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