girls:
13.7k births since 1880
#1321 (77th percentile)
boys:
856 births since 1880
#3731 (19th percentile)
overall:
14.6k births since 1880
#2175 (72nd percentile)
The name Bertie is the #2,175 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 14,567 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 71.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 71.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,321 (76.9% percentile) for all time with 13,711 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,731 (18.6% percentile) for all time with 856 births since 1880.
Bertie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Bertie is available in 106 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (105 years for girls and 75 years for boys). 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 Bertie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 94.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Bertie reached its peak popularity in 1888, achieving the 47.3% percentile (ranked #150) with 945 births per million. The name was most common in 1886, with 982 births per million (ranked 44.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Bertie ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 0.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Bertie reached its peak popularity in 1889, achieving the 5.4% percentile (ranked #192) with 134 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 134 births per million (ranked 5.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1979.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bertie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Bertie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Bertie is pronounced as BER-tee, which has 2 syllables.
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