Berta
Berta is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. Its best rank was 327th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1926132 births
- Best rank
- #327in 1880
- Since 1880
- 7,277people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,277 girls have been named Berta in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 132 births.
The name has all but left use: 9 births in 2024, against 132 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1920s alone account for 16%. It has spent 69 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Berta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 286 | |
| 1890s | 371 | |
| 1900s | 456 | |
| 1910s | 754 | |
| 1920s | 1,172 | |
| 1930s | 1,068 | |
| 1940s | 851 | |
| 1950s | 744 | |
| 1960s | 524 | |
| 1970s | 377 | |
| 1980s | 270 | |
| 1990s | 188 | |
| 2000s | 113 | |
| 2010s | 75 | |
| 2020s | 28 |
In 1926, its biggest year
Berta was the 621st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1926 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1926.
Names that rose and fell with Berta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rhodapeak 1926
- Melvinapeak 1920
- Anniepeak 1922
- Rosapeak 1925
- Luepeak 1919
- Corneliapeak 1921
- Louveniapeak 1924
- Inapeak 1921
Other spellings in the data
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.