Name Awesome

Bertie

#8,953 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Bright + raven, through Bertram

Bertie has been given to 14,592 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #8,953 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1928, with 396 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.

Babies named Bertie, 2025

1 in 301,000

Bertie over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Bertie over time

In 2025, Bertie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

18802025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Bertie: meaning, origin, and history

Bright + raven, through Bertram

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bertie means

Bertie belongs to the name family reached through Bertie → Bertram. Its meaning is “bright + raven”.

Origin, language, and formation

Bertie is used in English and East Central German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bertram, Albert, Berthold and Hubert.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,736 girls were recorded with the name Bertie between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 396 in 1928; its best national rank was #154 in 1886.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,379 in 2020 to #8,953 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #16,861 in 2015 to #8,953 in 2025.

In the United States, 856 boys were recorded with the name Bertie between 1880 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1918; its best national rank was #467 in 1889.

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 Bertie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,953
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bertie 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bertie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Berties were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bertie was born before 1918 — so the typical Bertie is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.73%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
730
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 20.8% of all recorded uses (2,859).

Is Bertie 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
−1,302
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,426
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,908
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.8%
Peak was 1928 (396)
Years since peak
97
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#154
1886

Spellings of Bertie

Bertie is not the most common spelling — Bertha is, with 23.6% against Bertie's 1.6%.

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 Bertie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Bertie was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 17,218 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

021 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 4,762
  2. 2Alabama1 in 5,000
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 5,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 5,000
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 5,263
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 5,556
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 5,556
  8. 8Georgia1 in 6,250

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

Where Bertie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Bertie was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 823,350 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Bertie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bertie around the world

Where Bertie 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
    2017–2024
    #4,193
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Bertie

People whose public names include Bertie, 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.

Bertie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,953
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,426
Best rank ever
#154
1886
Peak year
1928
396 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,736
Count in 2025
11

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#467
1889
Peak year
1918
28 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1979
All-time count
856
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bertie

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

BerylBertaLettieDottieBerkleyBereniceBerlinKattieBettieLottieNettieJettieBerlynScottieBerthaBernadinePattieGertieKristieBernieceBernitaHettieBerkleeBergen

Names with a curve like Bertie

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

HesterGussieMaudieDessieMadgeOmaDovieLessieFlossieLinnieNannieLelia

Sibling names for Bertie

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

Explore around Bertie

Top names of 1928, Bertie's peak yearThe 1920s in fullOther names that peaked in 1886More old lady namesGirls' names starting with BRobert Variations & NicknamesWhimsical Boy Names