Bernd
Bernd is a male name .
Origin and meaning
Bernd is the short form of the male given name Bernhard .
distribution
The name Bernd was rarely used in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its popularity rose rapidly towards the end of the 1930s. From the mid-forties through the mid-fifties, the name was mostly among the ten most commonly given boy names. Its popularity fell somewhat in the 1960s and sharply decreased in the 1970s. Since then, hardly any boys have been called Bernd.
Name days
- January 24th
- August 20 - Bernhard von Clairvaux
Well-known namesake
First name
- Bernd Clüver (1948–2011), German pop singer
- Bernd Eichinger (1949–2011), German film producer and director
- Bernd Fischle ( HARLEM ; * 1951), German writer and poet
- Bernd Glemser (* 1962), German pianist
- Bernd Haake (* 1946), German ice hockey coach
- Bernd Heller (* 1947), German sports presenter
- Bernd Herzsprung (* 1942), German actor
- Bernd Hölzenbein (* 1946), German soccer player
- Bernd Isert (1951–2017), German graduate engineer and trainer
- Bernd Lehmann (soccer player) (* 1947), German soccer player
- Bernd Lehmann (Wall Victim ) (1949–1968), German fatality at the Berlin Wall
- Bernd Lehmann (artist, 1950) (* 1950), German etcher and illustrator
- Bernd Lehmann (geodesist) (1951–2019), German geodesist
- Bernd Lehmann (artist, 1952) (* 1952), German painter and graphic artist
- Bernd Lehmann (* 1966), German jazz musician, see Lömsch Lehmann
- Bernd Lucke (* 1962), German politician
- Bernd Mottl (* 1965), German theater director
- Bernd Nielsen (1943–2003), German handball player
- Bernd Rosemeyer (1909–1938), German racing driver
- Bernd Schlömer (* 1971), German politician Pirate Party
- Bernd Schneider (politician) (1925–2013), German politician, Lord Mayor of Giessen (1963–1977)
- Bernd Schneider (classical philologist) (* 1943), German classical philologist
- Bernd Schneider (organist) (* 1951), German organist
- Bernd Schneider (racing driver) (* 1964), German racing driver
- Bernd Schneider (chess player) (* 1965), German chess player
- Bernd Schneider (soccer player) (* 1973), German soccer player
- Bernd Schneidmüller (* 1954), German historian
- Bernd Späth (* 1950), German writer
- Bernd Spier (1944–2017), German pop singer
- Bernd Stelter (* 1961), German comedian
- Bernd Struck (* 1940), German physicist and handball player
- Bernd Uhlmann (* 1939), German enduro athlete
- Bernd Vollmar (* 1951) German art historian and monument conservator
- Bernd Weikl (* 1942), German-Austrian opera and concert singer, author and opera director
- Bernd Zimmer (* 1948), German painter
family name
- Adam Bernd (1676–1748), Protestant priest and author
- Christian Samuel Theodor Bernd (1775–1854), German linguist and heraldist
- Gustav Adolf Bernd (1869–1942), German sculptor and stonemason
- Karl von Bernd (1817–1879), Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal
- Ricardo Bernd (* 1949), Brazilian tennis player
Fictional characters
- Bernd Stromberg , fictional protagonist of the TV series Stromberg
- Bernd das Brot , TV character for children
- The wild Bernd
See also
- Rose Bernd
- Bernt
- Berndt
- Der Bernd , documentary about Bernd Eichinger