Bertice — unisex name

What the Data Says About Bertice

The Social Security Administration has registered 175 babies named Bertice between 1904 and 1994, spanning 91 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bertice currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1994. The name reached its historical peak in 1914, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Bertice is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 44 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bertice performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 77 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Bertice shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Bertice in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bertice in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 175 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.