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Berthe

Girls' name

Form of Bertha

Berthe has been given to 185 babies in the U.S. since 1890. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1916, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Berthe, 1929

1 in 365,000

Berthe 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Berthe: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Bertha

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Berthe means

Berthe is a form of Bertha.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Berthe is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /bɛʁt/ for Berthe.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Berthe → Bertha. The family’s meaning is “bright one”, recorded in English with the source elements Berhte.

Origin, language, and formation

Berthe is used in French and Norman.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bertha.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Berthe is pronounced /bɛʁt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 185 girls were recorded with the name Berthe between 1890 and 1929. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1916; its best national rank was #1,227 in 1890.

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 Berthe?

Berthe had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1929, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1929
1 in 365,000
6 of 2,192,103 births
Among girls only
1 in 186,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1929
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
253,243 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Berthe 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 1929 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 253,243 children born in 1929 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Berthe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Berthes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Berthe was born before 1917 — so the typical Berthe is around 108 today.

Median birth year
1917
About 108 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
48.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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Choose a decade

1910s — 48.6% of all recorded uses (90).

Is Berthe 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1916 (14)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,227
1890

Spellings of Berthe

Berthe is not the most common spelling — Bertha is, with 40.2% against Berthe's 0.04%.

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 Berthe is used

Across 1910–2025, Berthe was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 661,669 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in —

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. Berthe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Berthe around the world

Where Berthe 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.

  • France
    1900–2023
    #6,276
    in 2023

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Berthe by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,227
1890
Peak year
1916
14 that year
First recorded
1890
Last recorded
1929
All-time count
185
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Berthe

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

BerklieBerganBergenBerettaBerdiaBerlynBerlynnBernisXantheBerlieBerleneBeritBerticeBerenisBerdellBerdaBerlinBerneseBeryleBermaBertineBerlineBerdinaBernise

Sibling names for Berthe

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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