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Bertina

Girls' name

Feminine form of Bert

Bertina has been given to 1,234 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1971, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Bertina, 2005

1 in 769,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bertina: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Bert

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bertina means

Bertina is a feminine form of Bert.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Bertina is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /bəɹ.ˈti.nə/ and /bə.ˈtiː.nə/ for Bertina.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Bertina → Bert. The family’s meaning is “bright”, recorded in the naming reference for Bert.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bert.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,234 girls were recorded with the name Bertina between 1882 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 31 in 1971; its best national rank was #924 in 1882.

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.

How common is Bertina?

Bertina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 769,000
5 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only
1 in 369,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,928 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bertina 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 2005 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 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bertina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bertinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bertina was born before 1958 — so the typical Bertina is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
19.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
730
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 19.8% of all recorded uses (244).

Is Bertina 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 1971 (31)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#924
1882

Spellings of Bertina

Bertina is not the most common spelling — Bertha is, with 74.7% against Bertina's 0.44%.

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 Bertina is used

Across 1910–2025, Bertina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,151,209 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Maryland1 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. Bertina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bertina around the world

Where Bertina 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
    1914–2015
    #6,419
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1957–1963
    #644
    in 1963

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bertina 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
—
Best rank ever
#924
1882
Peak year
1971
31 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
1,234
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bertina

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

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Sibling names for Bertina

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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