Bertram
Bertram is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. Its best rank was 337th, in 1895.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1923228 births
- Best rank
- #337in 1895
- Since 1880
- 7,946people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,946 boys have been named Bertram in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1923, with 228 births.
The name has all but left use: 10 births in 2024, against 228 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 90 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Bertram | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 164 | |
| 1890s | 165 | |
| 1900s | 223 | |
| 1910s | 1,299 | |
| 1920s | 1,942 | |
| 1930s | 1,063 | |
| 1940s | 744 | |
| 1950s | 736 | |
| 1960s | 625 | |
| 1970s | 402 | |
| 1980s | 234 | |
| 1990s | 172 | |
| 2000s | 68 | |
| 2010s | 70 | |
| 2020s | 39 |
In 1923, its biggest year
Bertram was the 394th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1923 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1923.
Names that rose and fell with Bertram
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Chesterpeak 1920
- Edmundpeak 1923
- Alfredpeak 1928
- Clementpeak 1918
- Wilfordpeak 1926
- Sidneypeak 1918
- Eldridgepeak 1924
- Herbertpeak 1928
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.