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Bertrand

Boys' name

Bright + rim (of a shield)

Bertrand has been given to 3,991 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1924, with 95 recorded.

Babies named Bertrand, 2021

1 in 339,000

Bertrand over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bertrand: meaning, origin, and history

Bright + rim (of a shield)

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bertrand means

Bertrand means “bright + rim (of a shield)”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Bertrand is used in French, English and Germanic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /bɛʁ.tʁɑ̃/, /ˈbɜɹ.tɹənd/ and /ˈbɜː.tɹənd/ for Bertrand.

Origin, language, and formation

Bertrand is used in English, French and Occitan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bertram.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Bertrand is pronounced /bɛʁ.tʁɑ̃/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,991 boys were recorded with the name Bertrand between 1880 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 95 in 1924; its best national rank was #520 in 1896.

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 Bertrand?

Bertrand had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 339,000
10 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 175,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
234,975 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bertrand 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 2021 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 234,975 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bertrand. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bertrands were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bertrand was born before 1937 — so the typical Bertrand is around 88 today.

Median birth year
1937
About 88 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,385
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 20.8% of all recorded uses (830).

Is Bertrand 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1924 (95)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#520
1896

Spellings of Bertrand

Bertrand is not the most common spelling — Bertram is, with 66.6% against Bertrand's 33.4%.

  • Bertram66.6%7,955
  • Bertrand33.4%3,991

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 Bertrand is used

Across 1910–2025, Bertrand was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 1,538 boys, against 1 in 64,276 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

065 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 1,538
  2. 2New Hampshire1 in 5,882
  3. 3Rhode Island1 in 10,000
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 11,111
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 25,000
  6. 6New York1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8Connecticut1 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. Bertrand has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bertrand around the world

Where Bertrand 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
    1997–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #4,160
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–1999
    #1,600
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1969–1969
    #510
    in 1969

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

Notable people named Bertrand

People whose public names include Bertrand, 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.

Bertrand in other languages

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

BertranBeltránBertránBertrānsBertrando

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

Bertrand 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
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Best rank ever
#520
1896
Peak year
1924
95 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
3,991
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bertrand

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

BernardoBerkleyBertramBerkeleyBernabeCortlandCourtlandWaylandRowlandBernhardBerniceLeelandHollandBernieHarlandBerlinCopelandBerryFerdinandRollandBernellOaklandKirklandZealand

Names with a curve like Bertrand

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

GarnettLoyAlvieTheadoreEldridgeDillardObieDenzilHowellRowlandRudolfAlford

Sibling names for Bertrand

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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