Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern French and Catalan : from the personal name Bernat (see Bernhard).
  • Hungarian (Bernát) : from the personal name Bernát, Hungarian form of Bernhard.
  • Slovenian : from a derivative of the personal name Bernard. Compare Bernot.

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