How rare is the name Bertha?

64,455 people in the United States have the first name Bertha, about 1 in 4,686. It ranks #772 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

BERTHA

#772

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
64,455
About
1 in 4,686
This common or more
66.1%
Who bears it

Of the 64,455 people named Bertha, 56.7% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 21.4% as White and 19.5% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Bertha peaked in 1918, when 5,065 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1918
Births that year
5,065
In 2025*
30 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 208,807 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Bertha by decade

Among all names given to American babies, it ranked #20 in every decade from the 1880s to the 1890s. The largest share of babies named Bertha, 45.2%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#2018,351
1890s#2025,224
1900s#3024,363
1910s#7840,250
1920s#12238,754
1930s#21221,403
1940s#30616,309
1950s#45211,293
1960s#7085,859
1970s#1,0942,717
1980s#1,5901,692
1990s#2,1641,400
2000s#4,341686
2010s#7,485330
2020s#8,036176
Before 190122.3%
Greatest Generation 1901–2745.2%
Silent Generation 1928–4518%
Baby boom 1946–6410.1%
Generation X 1965–802.5%
Millennials 1981–961.2%
Generation Z 1997–120.5%
2013 and later0.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Bertha is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Bertha has been most common in Mississippi (3.3×), Alabama (2.7×), and South Carolina (2.6×), and least common in Utah (0.22×).

137,049 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Bertha

#770 Lynda · 64,728#771 Gene · 64,474#773 Shaun · 64,418#774 Shelley · 64,253

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Bertha, most common first.

#2,223 Berta · 11,771#34,154 Berthe · 240#44,078 Berth · 158

Also a last name

As a last name, Bertha ranks #46,089 of 156,621, with 499 people. See Bertha as a last name

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