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Berta

#10,222 in 2025Girls' name

Bright one, through Bertha

Berta has been given to 7,286 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #10,222 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1926, with 132 recorded.

Babies named Berta, 2025

1 in 368,000

Berta over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Berta: meaning, origin, and history

Bright one, through Bertha

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Berta means

Berta belongs to the name family reached through Berta → Bertha. Its meaning is “bright one”.

Origin, language, and formation

Berta is used in English, Czech, Estonian, Faroese, German, Hungarian, Slovak and Slovene and additional language sections.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bertha and Alberta.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Berta is pronounced [ˈbɛrta].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,286 girls were recorded with the name Berta between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 132 in 1926; its best national rank was #327 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,254 in 2020 to #10,222 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #16,860 in 2015 to #10,222 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Berta?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,222
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Berta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Berta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bertas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Berta was born before 1935 — so the typical Berta is around 90 today.

Median birth year
1935
About 90 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
16.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,328
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 16.1% of all recorded uses (1,172).

Is Berta rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+180
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,032
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,638
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.80×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.8%
Peak was 1926 (132)
Years since peak
99
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#327
1880

Spellings of Berta

Berta is not the most common spelling — Betty is, with 42.5% against Berta's 0.31%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Berta is used

Across 1910–2025, Berta was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 5,882 girls, against 1 in 30,565 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

017 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 5,882
  2. 2Alabama1 in 20,000
  3. 3California1 in 25,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 25,000
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 33,333
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 33,333
  8. 8Virginia1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Berta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Berta around the world

Where Berta ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2014–2015
    #4,736
    in 2015
  • France
    1909–1984
    #3,063
    in 1984
  • South Australia
    1956–1966
    #658
    in 1966

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Berta

People whose public names include Berta, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Berta in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Berta. Linked forms have their own page here.

BerthaBertheObertaLibertaBertta

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Berta by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,222
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,032
Best rank ever
#327
1880
Peak year
1926
132 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,286
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Berta

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BerylBertieBerkleyMartaBerlinBeritBereniceBerlynBernaBernitaBerkleeBergenBerkeleyBernieBernieceBerdieBerthaBernadineBerlynnBerryBerneiceVertaBertBernetta

Names with a curve like Berta

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Berta, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MelvinaGeorgeDorcasMargretDonnieDelmaAlvaRowenaLeathaLavadaHenryEaster

Sibling names for Berta

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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