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Bertran

Boys' name

English equivalent of Bertram

Bertran has been given to 132 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1922, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Bertran, 1976

1 in 607,000

Bertran over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bertran: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Bertram

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bertran means

Bertran is a English equivalent of Bertram.

Origin, language, and formation

Bertran is used in Catalan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bertram.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Bertran is pronounced [bərˈtɾan].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 132 boys were recorded with the name Bertran between 1915 and 1976. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1922; its best national rank was #2,456 in 1930.

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 Bertran?

Bertran had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1976, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1976
1 in 607,000
5 of 3,034,007 births
Among boys only
1 in 314,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1976
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
420,604 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bertran 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 1976 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 420,604 children born in 1976 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bertran. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bertrans were born

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

Median birth year
1931
About 94 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
32.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
46
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 32.6% of all recorded uses (43).

Is Bertran 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 1922 (12)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,456
1930

Spellings of Bertran

Bertran is not the most common spelling — Bertram is, with 48.4% against Bertran's 0.80%.

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.

Bertran around the world

Where Bertran 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
    1959–1986
    #2,736
    in 1986

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Bertran by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,456
1930
Peak year
1922
12 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1976
All-time count
132
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bertran

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

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Sibling names for Bertran

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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