Bernabe
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/beɾnabe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bernabe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Bernabé.
- PEPeru≈1 in 4.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 5K
- NINicaragua≈1 in 6.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 239 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bernabé in GT Guatemala, PA Panama.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Bernabé.
Sources 1
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bernabe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 15K | Bernabe | 81 |
| PE Peru | #626 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Bernabe | 53 |
| ES Spain | #781 | 4,002 | 1 in 12K | 7.3K | Bernabe | 123 |
| US United States | — | 3,952 | 1 in 84K | 4.9K | Bernabe | 239 |
| AR Argentina | #574 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 1.2K | Bernabe | 64 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Bernabé | 17 |
| NI Nicaragua | #309 | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Bernabe | 8 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | 3 | Bernabé | 16 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bernabe is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, Barnabas
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bernabe Villacampob. 1943PHboxer
- Bernabe Concepcionb. 1988PHFilipino boxer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 48 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 7.3K | #756 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7.3K | #756 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.9K | #6,848 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.9K | #6,686 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.1K | #9,614 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bernabe mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Bernabé. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Bernabe?
- A machine transcription gives /beɾnabe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Bernabe a male or female name?
- Bernabe is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Bernabe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Bernabe in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bernabe.
- How common is the name Bernabe?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,002 people named Bernabe, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Bernabe compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Bernabe is the 309th most common given name of 16,569 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bernabe?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bernabeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bernabe” — the 309th most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.