Bertie
Bertie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. Its best rank was 154th, in 1886.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1928396 births
- Best rank
- #154in 1886
- Since 1880
- 14,581people given the name
The story in the numbers
13,725 girls have been named Bertie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1928, with 396 births.
The name has all but left use: 14 births in 2024, against 396 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1918, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 68 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 856 boys have also been given it, 5.9% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Bertie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,153 | |
| 1890s | 1,669 | |
| 1900s | 1,831 | |
| 1910s | 2,637 | |
| 1920s | 2,859 | |
| 1930s | 1,831 | |
| 1940s | 1,026 | |
| 1950s | 418 | |
| 1960s | 147 | |
| 1970s | 60 | |
| 1980s | 5 | |
| 2010s | 29 | |
| 2020s | 60 |
In 1928, its biggest year
Bertie was the 336th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1928 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1928.
Names that rose and fell with Bertie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mamiepeak 1919
- Olliepeak 1919
- Bessiepeak 1916
- Gertiepeak 1918
- Leliapeak 1919
- Arriepeak 1922
- Sulapeak 1921
- Lilliepeak 1919
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.