Bert
Bert is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. Its best rank was 47th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1918698 births
- Best rank
- #47in 1880
- Since 1880
- 33,577people given the name
The story in the numbers
33,577 boys have been named Bert in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 698 births.
The name has all but left use: 9 births in 2024, against 698 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 104 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 15 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Bert | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,808 | |
| 1890s | 1,667 | |
| 1900s | 1,253 | |
| 1910s | 4,327 | |
| 1920s | 5,765 | |
| 1930s | 4,258 | |
| 1940s | 3,807 | |
| 1950s | 3,748 | |
| 1960s | 2,919 | |
| 1970s | 1,636 | |
| 1980s | 752 | |
| 1990s | 321 | |
| 2000s | 149 | |
| 2010s | 122 | |
| 2020s | 45 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Bert was the 186th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Bert
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hirampeak 1920
- Newtonpeak 1919
- Colonelpeak 1920
- Perleypeak 1915
- Charleypeak 1920
- Gustavpeak 1917
- Isompeak 1920
- Rollapeak 1916
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.