Berthine
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Berthine has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 1918. 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 1918, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Berthine, 1944
1 in 448,000
Berthine over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Berthine?
Berthine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1944, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1944
- 1 in 448,000
- 6 of 2,689,998 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 221,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1944
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 310,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Berthine sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1944 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 310,762 children born in 1944 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Berthine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Berthines were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Berthine was born before 1925 — so the typical Berthine is around 100 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 27.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 72.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 27.3% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Berthine 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1918 (6)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Berthine
Berthine is not the most common spelling — Bertie is, with 91.6% against Berthine's 0.15%.
Berthine around the world
Where Berthine 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.
- France1900–1992#2,892in 1992
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Berthine by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Berthine
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Berthine
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.