Bertie
About 14,592 American babies have been named Bertie since 1880, most of them around 1928. In 2025 it ranked 8,860th. About 1,800 Berties are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 80.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Bertie boys named Bertie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 14,592
- Estimated living today
- 1,800
- Median age today
- 80
- Peak year
- 1928
- Best rank
- 336th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,860th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 13,736 / 856
How old the living Berties are
born that year still alive today
Of the 14,592 babies given the name since 1880, about 1,800 are alive — 12 in every hundred. Roughly 100 of them are children and 1,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1945 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Berties
- Bertie Ahern (born 1951)11th Taoiseach of Ireland from 1997 to 2008
- Bertie Charles Forbes (1880–1954)American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine
- Bertie Mee (1918–2001)English footballer and manager
- Bertie Auld (1938–2021)Scottish footballer, football manager
- Bertie Carvel (born 1977)English actor, singer and director
- Bertie Peacock (1928–2004)Northern Irish association football player and manager
People named Bertie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Bertie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Bertie is most concentrated in South Carolina (4.4×), Arkansas (4.3×), Alabama (4.3×), North Carolina (4.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1928
The most popular girls’ names the year Bertie peaked:
Bertie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Bertie | 2,898 | 215th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Bertie | 47 | 212th |
| Scotland boys | Bertie | 38 | 425th |
| France boys | Bertie | 15 | 920th |
| England and Wales girls | Bertie | 14 | 4,192nd |
| Ireland boys | Bertie | 14 | 572nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Bertie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.