Berthe
Berthe was last recorded in 1929, when 6 babies were given it; 185 Americans have been recorded with it between 1890 and 1929 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Berthe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Berthe mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Berthe is “a female given name, equivalent to English Bertha”
/bɛʁt/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Berthe?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,114, in 1929; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1916, the peak
Berthe peaked in 1916, when 14 girls were given it, #2,268 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 6 | #4,114 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,356 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,364 | 5.1 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,698 | 6.6 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,991 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,019 | 5.8 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,700 | 6.7 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,961 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,001 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,497 | 7.1 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 12 | #2,694 | 10.4 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,906 | 9.2 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,268 | 13.4 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,269 | 13.2 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,022 | 15.8 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,863 | 9.6 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,179 | 14.3 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,985 | 16.7 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,790 | 20.2 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,748 | 20.0 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,295 | 28.2 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,227 | 31.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Berthe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Berthe has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Berthe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Berthe, and how old are they?
An estimated 1 Americans named Berthe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 240 people named Berthe (239 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 208,992 babies since 1880, Berthe is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 30 babies recorded by SSA was a Berthe (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Berthe and names like it
- Compare Berthe and BerthaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sBerthe peaked in 1916.
- Massachusetts’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Berthe since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Berthe: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Berthe.
- Names starting with BMost given first.