Berdie
Berdie was last recorded in 1960, when 8 babies were given it; 1,114 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Berdie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Berdie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Berdie is “a diminutive of the female given name Bertha.”
Diminutive of Bertha. Compare Birdie.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Berdie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,800, in 1960; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1919, the peak
Berdie peaked in 1919, when 29 girls were given it, #1,449 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 8 | #4,800 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,319 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,170 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,359 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,396 | 6.1 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,575 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,119 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,352 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,857 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,366 | 5.9 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 7 | #4,380 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,889 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,155 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,781 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,567 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,207 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,028 | 14.1 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,432 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,885 | 16.4 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,598 | 10.0 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,327 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,041 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,727 | 19.1 |
| 1934 | 25 | #1,484 | 23.9 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,170 | 13.9 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,883 | 16.9 |
| 1931 | 24 | #1,553 | 22.5 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,708 | 19.5 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,834 | 17.9 |
| 1928 | 29 | #1,476 | 25.1 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,679 | 21.0 |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,078 | 15.2 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,896 | 17.3 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,222 | 13.6 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,847 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,737 | 20.0 |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,677 | 21.1 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,893 | 17.5 |
| 1919 | 29 | #1,449 | 25.7 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,759 | 19.0 |
| 1917 | 28 | #1,404 | 25.9 |
| 1916 | 27 | #1,410 | 25.9 |
| 1915 | 28 | #1,341 | 28.5 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,448 | 26.3 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,410 | 27.2 |
| 1912 | 24 | #1,058 | 43.0 |
| 1911 | 22 | #935 | 52.6 |
| 1910 | 19 | #1,002 | 47.9 |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,269 | 32.9 |
| 1907 | 15 | #993 | 47.1 |
| 1906 | 16 | #922 | 54.2 |
| 1905 | 13 | #1,061 | 44.6 |
| 1904 | 17 | #882 | 61.7 |
| 1903 | 12 | #1,035 | 45.8 |
| 1902 | 12 | #1,030 | 45.4 |
| 1901 | 15 | #859 | 62.7 |
| 1900 | 24 | #744 | 80.1 |
| 1899 | 11 | #989 | 47.2 |
| 1898 | 14 | #925 | 54.1 |
| 1897 | 13 | #899 | 55.5 |
| 1896 | 12 | #959 | 50.4 |
| 1895 | 21 | #688 | 89.9 |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,069 | 40.4 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,094 | 37.6 |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,092 | 37.7 |
| 1889 | 10 | #847 | 56.1 |
| 1888 | 13 | #727 | 72.8 |
| 1887 | 8 | #868 | 54.8 |
| 1886 | 8 | #840 | 55.4 |
| 1885 | 6 | #933 | 45.1 |
| 1884 | 8 | #797 | 62.0 |
| 1882 | 5 | #923 | 46.4 |
| 1881 | 8 | #629 | 87.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Berdie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Berdie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Berdie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Berdie, and how old are they?
An estimated 155 Americans named Berdie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (14% of everyone recorded); the median is 80 years old and half are between 75 and 87. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 227 people named Berdie (225 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 232 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,411 babies since 1880, Berdie is the most given (79% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Berdie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Berdie and names like it
- Compare Berdie and BerdiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sBerdie peaked in 1919.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Berdie since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Berdie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Berdie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.