Bertha

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Bertha: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Bertha: Recorded since 1945, with a gap of 42 years, its highest recorded position is #295, and it was last ranked in 2017.

3registrars recorded it
11times a registrar ranked it
73years from first to last
#295highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Bertha's record

Absent from every published list for 42 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2009–2017

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2009	#5556
2015	#5730
2017	#5765

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 7 of the 13 years from 1945 to 1957.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1945–2017 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #295 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–1957
Highest recorded position: #295 among girls in Norway, in 1945 (recorded 1945–1957).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2017
Most recently recorded at #5765 among girls in England and Wales, in 2017.
England and Wales · Girls

Bertha appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 7 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 41 births with the name.

Bertha across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Bertha's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#295 (1945)	#295 (1945)	#447 (1957)	7 of 13	41 (1945–1957)	8 (1945)
England and Wales · Girls	#5556 (2009)	#5556 (2009)	#5765 (2017)	3 of 9	9 (2009–2017)	3 (2009)

Bertha appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #295 in Norway in 1945.

Bertha's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#447	4	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#340	7	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#358	5	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#360	5	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#347	6	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#344	6	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#295	8	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#380	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Bertha is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Bertha, between 1945 and 2017, in 11 of those 73 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Norway	1945–1957	7	#295 in 1945
Republic of Ireland	1966	1	#380 in 1966
England and Wales	2009–2017	3	#5556 in 2009

Its high point came 64 years earlier in Norway (1945) than in England and Wales (2009).

No registrar recorded it for 42 years after 1966; it appears again in 2009.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1945 and 2017, ranked in 11 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #295, first reached in 1945.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 8 births, registered in Norway in 1945.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 42 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1966, and 64 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

5decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 5 decades →
4 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
8separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
42 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period20 or more years missing →
#5,765position in 2017, its most recent recorded year
64 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 41 years or more →
8births registered in its largest year, 1945Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Berry · #1707, 25y
Bert · #2020, 25y
Bertie · #211, 30y
Bertil · #235, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Caithlin · #293, 13y
Eile · #288, 14y
Emery · #288, 16y
Loughlin · #288, 16y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Magda · #295, 46y
Sigvald · #295, 15y
Gyda · #296, 47y
Leikny · #294, 16y

Bertha was ranked #295 in Norway · Girls in 1945. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Aasta#291
Alice#292
Alma#293
Anne-Mette#294
Doris#296
Ebba#297
Edna#298
Eivor#299

Bertha and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Bertha without appearing here.

Bertha moved ahead of

Hedvig
In 1956 they stood at #340 and #330 in Norway · Girls; by 1957 that had become #447 and #455.

Moved ahead of Bertha

Lena
In 1956 they stood at #340 and #369 in Norway · Girls; by 1957 that had become #447 and #201.
Patricia
In 1956 they stood at #340 and #352 in Norway · Girls; by 1957 that had become #447 and #304.
Hege
In 1945 they stood at #295 and #304 in Norway · Girls; by 1946 that had become #344 and #211.
Elsie
In 1946 they stood at #344 and #346 in Norway · Girls; by 1947 that had become #347 and #256.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #295 in Norway in 1945. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Bertha

Bertha at a glance

What stands out in Bertha's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bertha across 2 official records

Bertha appears in

Popularity data

Where Bertha is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Bertha

Bertha and the names beside it

Bertha moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Bertha

Bertha at a glance

What stands out in Bertha's record

Bertha across 2 official records

Bertha appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Bertha

Bertha and the names beside it

Bertha moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Bertha