girls:
30 births since 1915
#5686 (0th percentile)
boys:
63 births since 1913
#4523 (1st percentile)
overall:
93 births since 1913
#7646 (1st percentile)
The name Berthel is the #7,646 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 93 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 1.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,523 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 63 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,686 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 30 births since 1915.
Berthel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1915 for girls). Birth data for Berthel is available in 12 out of the 21 years between 1913 and 1933 (10 years for boys and 5 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Berthel has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (67.7% of all recorded births). In 1933, 100.0% of babies named Berthel were boys.
For boys, Berthel reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #531) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 13 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1933.
For girls, Berthel reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #558) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1930.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Berthel".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Berthel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Berthel is pronounced as BER-thuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BER-thehl, at 13.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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