girls:
207.8k births since 1880
#191 (97th percentile)
boys:
937 births since 1881
#3654 (20th percentile)
overall:
208.7k births since 1880
#375 (95th percentile)
The name Bertha is the #375 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 208,739 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #191 (96.7% percentile) for all time with 207,802 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,654 (20.3% percentile) for all time with 937 births since 1881.
Bertha has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1881 for boys).
The name Bertha has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Bertha reached its peak popularity in 1888, achieving the 97.9% percentile (ranked #7) with 12,933 births per million. The name was most common in 1883, with 14,001 births per million (ranked 97.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Bertha ranks #925 for girls (2.3% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 0.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Bertha reached its peak popularity in 1900, achieving the 6.7% percentile (ranked #236) with 136 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 136 births per million (ranked 6.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1986.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bertha".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Bertha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Bertha is pronounced as BER-thuh, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like B ER1 TH AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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