Bernhart: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Bernhart? Think of it as Bernhard with a different pen. Its meaning, shared with Bernhard, is “from the name Bernhard”.

How the spelling arose

Bernhart writes “t” in place of the “d” found in Bernhard, a typical scribal difference.

Bernhart ranked 41,164 in the 2010 US Census, with 529 people answering to the name. Between 1891 and 2000, 298 babies born in France were registered as Bernhart, with the most births in 1971–1980.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Bernhard and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Want more than a summary? See the Bernhart family name pack.