Bertha is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Bertha is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Bertha. In the SmartGenius ranking, Bertha is #4,130 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 136,664 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Bertha. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
History tends to focus on the most famous and best. But even those who play second fiddle leave their mark: Bertha is one of those names without which the orchestra would be incomplete. In fact, Bertha has reached the SmartGenius top ranking #7 more than once, although the last time was a long time ago, way back in the 19th century in 1888. But even though the peak of its popularity was more than 100 years ago, the name Bertha has been given to newborn girls every year since records began. Bertha is of exceptional enduring popularity, that conveys the classic vibes of the19th century.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Bertha was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The popularity of the name Bertha peaked a very long time ago, but the name has nevertheless arrived in the 21st century. In 2022, it ranked #3,718 in our statistics - perhaps a far cry from when your ancestors were children and Bertha made it into the top ten more than once, but then again: traditional names often prove to be perennial favorites - so, maybe it's only a matter of time before Bertha hits the top again.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Bertha is one of them. However, Bertha is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Mississippi seem to particularly fancy this name – the 5,804 women called Bertha who live here are 0,301% of all female residents and push their name up to #70, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Mississippi.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a B. This means that B as the first letter for girls' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Bertha is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, if 3.2% of all girls’ names start with a B, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with B that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Barbara.
If your name is Bertha and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Bertha, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Elephant
Rocket
Tiger
Hat
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Bertha
Bertha
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
E
R
T
H
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
E
R
T
H
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Bertha sounds like this:
