Bertha
Bertha is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 28 births. Its best rank was 7th, in 1883, 1887–1888.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 280.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19185,051 births
- Best rank
- #7first in 1883
- Since 1880
- 207,837people given the name
The story in the numbers
207,837 girls have been named Bertha in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 5,051 births — 0.44% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 28 births in 2024, against 5,051 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1919, and the 1910s alone account for 19%. It has spent 106 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 51 of them in the top 100 and 12 in the top 10.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Bertha | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 18,264 | |
| 1890s | 25,125 | |
| 1900s | 24,247 | |
| 1910s | 40,120 | |
| 1920s | 38,571 | |
| 1930s | 21,234 | |
| 1940s | 16,225 | |
| 1950s | 11,251 | |
| 1960s | 5,838 | |
| 1970s | 2,717 | |
| 1980s | 1,687 | |
| 1990s | 1,400 | |
| 2000s | 685 | |
| 2010s | 330 | |
| 2020s | 143 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Bertha was the 51st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Bertha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Fanniepeak 1918
- Linniepeak 1921
- Nelliepeak 1918
- Lottiepeak 1916
- Vinapeak 1920
- Lydapeak 1916
- Lurapeak 1917
- Addiepeak 1920
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.