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Bertram

#8,349 in 2025Boys' name

Bright + raven

Bertram has been given to 7,955 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #8,349 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1923, with 228 recorded.

Babies named Bertram, 2025

1 in 368,000

Bertram over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bertram: meaning, origin, and history

Bright + raven

Germanic languages

What Bertram means

Bertram means “bright + raven”, associated with berhtaz and hrabnaz.

Origin, language, and formation

Bertram is used in English, Danish and German. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Bertram is pronounced /ˈbɜɹtɹəm/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,955 boys were recorded with the name Bertram between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 228 in 1923; its best national rank was #337 in 1895.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,159 in 2020 to #8,349 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,372 in 2015 to #8,349 in 2025.

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 Bertram?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,349
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bertram sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bertram. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bertrams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bertram was born before 1931 — so the typical Bertram is around 94 today.

Median birth year
1931
About 94 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
24.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,355
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 24.4% of all recorded uses (1,942).

Is Bertram 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
−508
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−190
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,977
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.9%
Peak was 1923 (228)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#337
1895

Spellings of Bertram

Bertram is the most-used spelling, taking 61.7% of the 12,883 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Bertram is used

Across 1910–2025, Bertram was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 33,634 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 7,692
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 12,500
  3. 3Hawaii1 in 14,286
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 16,667
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 16,667
  6. 6Illinois1 in 33,333
  7. 7California1 in 50,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 50,000

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

Bertram around the world

Where Bertram 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
    1996–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    1979–1979
    #2,615
    in 1979
  • South Australia
    1947–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Bertram

People whose public names include Bertram, 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.

Bertram in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Bertram. Linked forms have their own page here.

BertBeltránBertránBeltramo

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Bertram by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,349
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 190
Best rank ever
#337
1895
Peak year
1923
228 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,955
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Bertram

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

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Names with a curve like Bertram

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

CletusOdisLymanOlenMilfordDewittWilfordRupertWiltonHerschelArlieBuster

Sibling names for Bertram

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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