Meaning not yet researched.
Berta: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #327 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #327 in 1880; #10,226 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Berta in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,226 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #327.
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Berta: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #327 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 132 (1926).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Berta, making it the 10,226th most common girls’ name of the year, up 181 places from #10,407 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 9 girls named Berta in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #327, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 132, in 1926. For comparison, it was #16,866 in 2015 and #1,026 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Berta in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 24 babies. In all, 7,286 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,172 babies named Berta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 64 US girls were named Berta; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 9. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Bertha (208,807 babies since 1880) and Birtha (1,973 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bertina and Liberta are summarised on this page.
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, German, Italian and Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bertina (1,234), Liberta (83).
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.
No nicknames listed for Berta in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,226 | — | — |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,407 | — | — |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,720 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,639 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,259 | — | — |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,607 | — | — |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,580 | — | — |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,277 | — | — |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,651 | — | — |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,866 | — | — |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,872 | — | — |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,378 | — | — |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,196 | — | — |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,586 | — | — |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,455 | — | — |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,925 | — | — |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,762 | — | — |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,095 | — | — |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,801 | — | — |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,981 | — | — |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,127 | — | — |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,647 | — | — |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,781 | — | — |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,664 | — | — |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,008 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,883 | — | — |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,108 | — | — |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,676 | — | — |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,806 | — | — |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,002 | — | — |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,867 | — | — |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,445 | — | — |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,701 | — | — |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,348 | — | — |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,724 | — | — |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,030 | — | — |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,096 | — | — |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,756 | — | — |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,464 | — | — |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,431 | — | — |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,434 | — | — |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,348 | — | — |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,707 | — | — |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,854 | — | — |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,074 | — | — |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,680 | — | — |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,015 | — | — |
| 1977 | 48 | #2,002 | — | — |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,912 | — | — |
| 1975 | 30 | #2,569 | — | — |
| 1974 | 37 | #2,177 | — | — |
| 1973 | 34 | #2,269 | — | — |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,099 | — | — |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,005 | — | — |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,953 | — | — |
| 1969 | 53 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 1967 | 47 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 1966 | 42 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 1965 | 43 | #1,717 | — | — |
| 1964 | 45 | #1,731 | — | — |
| 1963 | 53 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 1962 | 71 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1961 | 58 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 1960 | 63 | #1,385 | — | — |
| 1959 | 66 | #1,315 | — | — |
| 1958 | 66 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1957 | 84 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 1956 | 76 | #1,194 | — | — |
| 1955 | 78 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 1954 | 80 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1953 | 72 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1952 | 74 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 1951 | 69 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 1950 | 79 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1949 | 73 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 1948 | 89 | #919 | — | — |
| 1947 | 84 | #969 | — | — |
| 1946 | 96 | #843 | — | — |
| 1945 | 65 | #955 | — | — |
| 1944 | 64 | #972 | — | — |
| 1943 | 93 | #798 | — | — |
| 1942 | 91 | #803 | — | — |
| 1941 | 101 | #699 | — | — |
| 1940 | 95 | #714 | — | — |
| 1939 | 90 | #718 | — | — |
| 1938 | 87 | #737 | — | — |
| 1937 | 110 | #647 | — | — |
| 1936 | 102 | #652 | — | — |
| 1935 | 109 | #622 | — | — |
| 1934 | 93 | #693 | — | — |
| 1933 | 120 | #588 | — | — |
| 1932 | 127 | #583 | — | — |
| 1931 | 111 | #628 | — | — |
| 1930 | 119 | #634 | — | — |
| 1929 | 112 | #656 | — | — |
| 1928 | 123 | #634 | — | — |
| 1927 | 130 | #627 | — | — |
| 1926 | 132 | #621 | — | — |
| 1925 | 127 | #651 | — | — |
| 1924 | 110 | #708 | — | — |
| 1923 | 98 | #735 | — | — |
| 1922 | 112 | #692 | — | — |
| 1921 | 122 | #667 | — | — |
| 1920 | 106 | #705 | — | — |
| 1919 | 86 | #759 | — | — |
| 1918 | 108 | #691 | — | — |
| 1917 | 89 | #746 | — | — |
| 1916 | 79 | #769 | — | — |
| 1915 | 84 | #724 | — | — |
| 1914 | 75 | #671 | — | — |
| 1913 | 75 | #594 | — | — |
| 1912 | 63 | #620 | — | — |
| 1911 | 47 | #624 | — | — |
| 1910 | 48 | #604 | — | — |
| 1909 | 38 | #638 | — | — |
| 1908 | 38 | #618 | — | — |
| 1907 | 53 | #490 | — | — |
| 1906 | 43 | #529 | — | — |
| 1905 | 35 | #588 | — | — |
| 1904 | 43 | #501 | — | — |
| 1903 | 53 | #436 | — | — |
| 1902 | 46 | #464 | — | — |
| 1901 | 52 | #415 | — | — |
| 1900 | 55 | #453 | — | — |
| 1899 | 49 | #417 | — | — |
| 1898 | 33 | #557 | — | — |
| 1897 | 52 | #406 | — | — |
| 1896 | 33 | #518 | — | — |
| 1895 | 37 | #480 | — | — |
| 1894 | 32 | #507 | — | — |
| 1893 | 28 | #521 | — | — |
| 1892 | 33 | #471 | — | — |
| 1891 | 37 | #406 | — | — |
| 1890 | 37 | #414 | — | — |
| 1889 | 46 | #353 | — | — |
| 1888 | 38 | #395 | — | — |
| 1887 | 24 | #459 | — | — |
| 1886 | 30 | #395 | — | — |
| 1885 | 35 | #338 | — | — |
| 1884 | 28 | #377 | — | — |
| 1883 | 21 | #411 | — | — |
| 1882 | 26 | #348 | — | — |
| 1881 | 14 | #448 | — | — |
| 1880 | 24 | #327 | — | — |
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).