Meaning not yet researched.
Bertie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #154 in 1886.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #154 in 1886; #8,955 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bertie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,955 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1886, at #154.
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Bertie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 girls in 2025. Peak: #154 in 1886 · most girls in one year: 396 (1928).
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Bertie, making it the 8,955th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,300 places from #7,655 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 14 girls named Bertie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #154, reached in 1886. The most girls given the name in a single year was 396, in 1928. For comparison, it was #16,867 in 2015 and #1,250 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bertie in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 85 babies. In all, 14,592 US babies have been given the name, 94% of them girls and 5.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 3,050 babies named Bertie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 95 US girls were named Bertie; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Birtie and Bertia 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Birtie (946), Bertia (22).
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 Bertie in the open dataset we use.
Bertie is listed as a nickname for Alberta, Bert, Bertha, Roberta.
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 | 11 | #8,955 | — | — |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,655 | — | — |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,307 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,526 | — | — |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,101 | — | — |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,384 | — | — |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,802 | — | — |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,939 | — | — |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,867 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,084 | — | — |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,144 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,656 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,544 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,429 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,242 | — | — |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,320 | — | — |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,054 | — | — |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,885 | — | — |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,089 | — | — |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,622 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,502 | — | — |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,219 | 5 | #4,000 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,759 | — | — |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,119 | — | — |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,426 | — | — |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,931 | 5 | #4,094 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,844 | — | — |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,100 | 5 | #4,085 |
| 1959 | 28 | #2,156 | — | — |
| 1958 | 25 | #2,267 | — | — |
| 1957 | 29 | #2,033 | — | — |
| 1956 | 41 | #1,663 | 5 | #3,996 |
| 1955 | 36 | #1,737 | — | — |
| 1954 | 45 | #1,509 | — | — |
| 1953 | 44 | #1,474 | 8 | #2,929 |
| 1952 | 47 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 1951 | 69 | #1,118 | 5 | #3,762 |
| 1950 | 54 | #1,250 | 5 | #3,737 |
| 1949 | 69 | #1,077 | 8 | #2,818 |
| 1948 | 75 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1947 | 94 | #916 | 8 | #2,895 |
| 1946 | 89 | #881 | 8 | #2,713 |
| 1945 | 90 | #791 | 10 | #2,261 |
| 1944 | 110 | #718 | 9 | #2,484 |
| 1943 | 118 | #707 | 9 | #2,576 |
| 1942 | 126 | #668 | 6 | #3,249 |
| 1941 | 132 | #613 | 6 | #3,176 |
| 1940 | 123 | #635 | 13 | #1,990 |
| 1939 | 138 | #572 | 13 | #1,967 |
| 1938 | 158 | #541 | 10 | #2,341 |
| 1937 | 136 | #577 | 9 | #2,502 |
| 1936 | 176 | #485 | 19 | #1,548 |
| 1935 | 176 | #475 | 6 | #3,295 |
| 1934 | 189 | #469 | 14 | #1,942 |
| 1933 | 194 | #470 | 6 | #3,310 |
| 1932 | 228 | #436 | 12 | #2,204 |
| 1931 | 202 | #453 | 21 | #1,546 |
| 1930 | 234 | #439 | 21 | #1,605 |
| 1929 | 267 | #405 | 13 | #2,217 |
| 1928 | 396 | #336 | 19 | #1,767 |
| 1927 | 238 | #451 | 22 | #1,652 |
| 1926 | 271 | #413 | 21 | #1,667 |
| 1925 | 253 | #434 | 21 | #1,682 |
| 1924 | 260 | #433 | 19 | #1,846 |
| 1923 | 256 | #419 | 17 | #1,950 |
| 1922 | 320 | #369 | 18 | #1,896 |
| 1921 | 292 | #396 | 26 | #1,481 |
| 1920 | 306 | #378 | 15 | #2,146 |
| 1919 | 299 | #375 | 27 | #1,387 |
| 1918 | 308 | #370 | 28 | #1,345 |
| 1917 | 301 | #362 | 12 | #2,296 |
| 1916 | 327 | #343 | 13 | #2,165 |
| 1915 | 342 | #323 | 18 | #1,667 |
| 1914 | 239 | #342 | 22 | #1,267 |
| 1913 | 230 | #315 | 10 | #1,815 |
| 1912 | 222 | #304 | 12 | #1,427 |
| 1911 | 174 | #300 | 12 | #986 |
| 1910 | 195 | #278 | — | — |
| 1909 | 184 | #264 | 8 | #1,091 |
| 1908 | 164 | #276 | 6 | #1,233 |
| 1907 | 188 | #251 | 10 | #876 |
| 1906 | 150 | #270 | 6 | #1,130 |
| 1905 | 165 | #251 | 5 | #1,252 |
| 1904 | 188 | #223 | 8 | #889 |
| 1903 | 188 | #222 | 6 | #1,024 |
| 1902 | 205 | #206 | 9 | #800 |
| 1901 | 196 | #202 | 10 | #686 |
| 1900 | 203 | #221 | — | — |
| 1899 | 162 | #215 | 5 | #1,065 |
| 1898 | 167 | #227 | 9 | #748 |
| 1897 | 175 | #209 | 6 | #950 |
| 1896 | 183 | #207 | 8 | #831 |
| 1895 | 154 | #220 | 9 | #743 |
| 1894 | 178 | #196 | 7 | #868 |
| 1893 | 167 | #198 | 14 | #510 |
| 1892 | 169 | #194 | 15 | #527 |
| 1891 | 156 | #188 | 8 | #711 |
| 1890 | 158 | #188 | 8 | #748 |
| 1889 | 143 | #189 | 16 | #467 |
| 1888 | 179 | #163 | 6 | #928 |
| 1887 | 108 | #193 | 10 | #592 |
| 1886 | 151 | #154 | 8 | #703 |
| 1885 | 126 | #163 | 11 | #581 |
| 1884 | 99 | #179 | 13 | #522 |
| 1883 | 106 | #160 | 10 | #599 |
| 1882 | 96 | #162 | 12 | #543 |
| 1881 | 68 | #181 | 9 | #601 |
| 1880 | 77 | #169 | 8 | #686 |
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).