Given name & surname
Bernabe
Bernabe is a surname from Spanish. It is used in English and Tagalog.
Original SpanishBernabé
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bernabe through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,824
- 1,824 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 37 babies
- 2025
- 17
- #5,420 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- 0%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 17 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 5,420 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was virtually unchanged in 2021–2025 compared with 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 37 in 1993. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,952 as a first name in 2020; 4,852 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bernabe’s family of names
In English usage, Bernabe as a surname was borrowed from the Spanish form Bernabé.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bernabe
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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