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The first name 
Bertrand

Bertrand is a first name for boys.

Bertrand – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Bertrand has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Bertrand. That means that a boy named Bertrand is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Bertrand.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Bertrand

Bertrand -
a special name with a long history going back to the 19th century

Bertrand is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2022, where the name Bertrand was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Bertrand and were born in the USA in 2022, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Bertrand even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular boys' names: In 1896, it ranked on position 476 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Bertrand was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Bertrand has 8 letters 
and begins with a B

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.2% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.

With eight letters, the name Bertrand is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Thus, it follows that if 4.2% of all boys' names start with a B, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Brian is the boys’ name starting with B, which is the most common of all.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Bertrand

If your name is Bertrand 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...

This is how you spell the name Bertrand

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Bertrand, you can simply say:

Butterfly

Elephant

Rocket

Tiger

Rocket

Apple

Nut

Dinosaur

This is how the name Bertrand is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Bertrand in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Bertrand

Bertrand

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Bertrand

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Bertrand is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

B
E
R
T
R
A
N
D

Have you ever waved the name Bertrand

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
R
A
N
D

Beeping like crazy...

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. Bertrand sounds like this: