Meaning not yet researched.
Bert: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #47 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #47 in 1880; #10,866 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bert in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,866 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #47.
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Bert: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #47 in 1880 · most boys in one year: 698 (1918).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Bert, making it the 10,866th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,471 places from #8,395 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 9 boys named Bert in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #47, reached in 1880. The most boys given the name in a single year was 698, in 1918. For comparison, it was #6,720 in 2015 and #368 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bert in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 348 babies with the name. In all, 34,242 US babies have been given the name, 1.9% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 5,893 babies named Bert.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 105 US boys were named Bert; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Robert (4,869,849 babies since 1880), Albert (494,420 babies since 1880), Herbert (229,383 babies since 1880) and Hubert (57,761 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Birt, Berthold and Engelbert are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Bertie, Bob and Bobby.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Birt (273), Berthold (267), Engelbert (150), Bertel (115), Berte (10), Berth (6), Berto (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 6 | #10,866 |
| 2024 | — | — | 9 | #8,395 |
| 2023 | — | — | 8 | #9,025 |
| 2022 | — | — | 12 | #6,880 |
| 2021 | — | — | 7 | #9,856 |
| 2020 | — | — | 9 | #8,163 |
| 2019 | — | — | 19 | #4,985 |
| 2018 | — | — | 11 | #7,181 |
| 2017 | — | — | 10 | #7,636 |
| 2016 | — | — | 14 | #6,083 |
| 2015 | — | — | 12 | #6,720 |
| 2014 | — | — | 17 | #5,276 |
| 2013 | — | — | 9 | #8,190 |
| 2012 | — | — | 11 | #7,119 |
| 2011 | — | — | 10 | #7,576 |
| 2010 | — | — | 9 | #8,223 |
| 2009 | — | — | 7 | #9,991 |
| 2008 | — | — | 13 | #6,436 |
| 2007 | — | — | 14 | #5,946 |
| 2006 | — | — | 18 | #4,882 |
| 2005 | — | — | 13 | #5,910 |
| 2004 | — | — | 13 | #5,848 |
| 2003 | — | — | 17 | #4,633 |
| 2002 | — | — | 10 | #6,591 |
| 2001 | — | — | 23 | #3,625 |
| 2000 | — | — | 21 | #3,782 |
| 1999 | — | — | 14 | #4,788 |
| 1998 | — | — | 24 | #3,203 |
| 1997 | — | — | 16 | #4,078 |
| 1996 | — | — | 30 | #2,539 |
| 1995 | — | — | 30 | #2,515 |
| 1994 | — | — | 33 | #2,353 |
| 1993 | — | — | 24 | #2,876 |
| 1992 | — | — | 41 | #1,955 |
| 1991 | — | — | 54 | #1,574 |
| 1990 | — | — | 56 | #1,516 |
| 1989 | — | — | 44 | #1,735 |
| 1988 | — | — | 56 | #1,395 |
| 1987 | — | — | 65 | #1,196 |
| 1986 | — | — | 72 | #1,103 |
| 1985 | — | — | 61 | #1,214 |
| 1984 | — | — | 69 | #1,077 |
| 1983 | — | — | 84 | #965 |
| 1982 | — | — | 85 | #977 |
| 1981 | — | — | 98 | #900 |
| 1980 | — | — | 118 | #809 |
| 1979 | — | — | 114 | #816 |
| 1978 | — | — | 115 | #790 |
| 1977 | — | — | 151 | #689 |
| 1976 | — | — | 146 | #683 |
| 1975 | — | — | 162 | #635 |
| 1974 | — | — | 140 | #695 |
| 1973 | — | — | 159 | #623 |
| 1972 | — | — | 199 | #568 |
| 1971 | — | — | 209 | #559 |
| 1970 | — | — | 241 | #518 |
| 1969 | — | — | 214 | #538 |
| 1968 | — | — | 217 | #512 |
| 1967 | — | — | 245 | #481 |
| 1966 | — | — | 252 | #484 |
| 1965 | — | — | 260 | #481 |
| 1964 | — | — | 335 | #436 |
| 1963 | — | — | 324 | #442 |
| 1962 | — | — | 360 | #420 |
| 1961 | — | — | 322 | #452 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,453 | 391 | #400 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,078 | 388 | #403 |
| 1958 | — | — | 428 | #376 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,155 | 345 | #420 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,935 | 376 | #387 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,902 | 405 | #359 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,308 | 347 | #383 |
| 1953 | — | — | 358 | #363 |
| 1952 | — | — | 383 | #351 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,889 | 379 | #349 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,356 | 339 | #368 |
| 1949 | — | — | 361 | #355 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,712 | 400 | #337 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,387 | 400 | #340 |
| 1946 | — | — | 363 | #339 |
| 1945 | — | — | 327 | #328 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,159 | 385 | #309 |
| 1943 | — | — | 416 | #304 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,475 | 418 | #296 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,683 | 353 | #308 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,536 | 384 | #284 |
| 1939 | — | — | 373 | #286 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,403 | 358 | #289 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,171 | 387 | #277 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,743 | 376 | #278 |
| 1935 | — | — | 470 | #246 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,583 | 420 | #267 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,443 | 407 | #261 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,072 | 462 | #251 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,752 | 463 | #249 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,085 | 542 | #232 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,940 | 566 | #225 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,195 | 517 | #245 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,569 | 571 | #230 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,486 | 519 | #247 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,501 | 536 | #245 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,681 | 620 | #218 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,374 | 573 | #231 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,197 | 609 | #217 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,070 | 661 | #207 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,281 | 593 | #218 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,863 | 570 | #218 |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,114 | 698 | #186 |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,008 | 533 | #210 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,381 | 556 | #203 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,578 | 532 | #202 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,449 | 448 | #191 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,608 | 340 | #197 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,306 | 332 | #176 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,380 | 177 | #178 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,432 | 141 | #190 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,625 | 119 | #189 |
| 1908 | 14 | #1,093 | 120 | #179 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,656 | 111 | #190 |
| 1906 | 13 | #1,054 | 106 | #172 |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,434 | 134 | #154 |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,174 | 120 | #157 |
| 1903 | 13 | #977 | 132 | #142 |
| 1902 | 15 | #906 | 130 | #143 |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,016 | 128 | #133 |
| 1900 | 11 | #1,173 | 153 | #143 |
| 1899 | — | — | 127 | #125 |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,106 | 143 | #126 |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,179 | 143 | #117 |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,219 | 173 | #109 |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,315 | 149 | #114 |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,004 | 187 | #98 |
| 1893 | — | — | 184 | #96 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,482 | 200 | #96 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,230 | 181 | #89 |
| 1890 | — | — | 180 | #97 |
| 1889 | — | — | 231 | #75 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,046 | 282 | #73 |
| 1887 | 9 | #799 | 237 | #72 |
| 1886 | — | — | 228 | #76 |
| 1885 | — | — | 276 | #66 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,042 | 280 | #67 |
| 1883 | 5 | #938 | 273 | #62 |
| 1882 | — | — | 341 | #52 |
| 1881 | — | — | 312 | #50 |
| 1880 | — | — | 348 | #47 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).