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Bertine

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Bertine has been given to 110 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1915, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Bertine, 1936

1 in 416,000

Bertine over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bertine: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bertine means

Bertine is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Bertine is used in French and Walloon.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Bertine is pronounced /bɛʁ.tin/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 110 girls were recorded with the name Bertine between 1912 and 1936. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1915; its best national rank was #2,668 in 1912.

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 Bertine?

Bertine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1936, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1936
1 in 416,000
5 of 2,077,561 births
Among girls only
1 in 208,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1936
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
288,012 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bertine 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 1936 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 288,012 children born in 1936 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bertine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bertines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bertine was born before 1921 — so the typical Bertine is around 104 today.

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
40.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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Choose a decade

1910s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (44).

Is Bertine 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 1915 (10)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,668
1912

Spellings of Bertine

Bertine is not the most common spelling — Bernice is, with 66.3% against Bertine'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.

Bertine around the world

Where Bertine 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
    1902–2014
    #7,850
    in 2014
  • Norway
    1880–2024
    #446
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Norway. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Bertine 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
#2,668
1912
Peak year
1915
10 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1936
All-time count
110
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bertine

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

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Sibling names for Bertine

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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