# Berthold (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/berthold/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 267 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 267 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1928 | 10 | 2,679 |
| 1929 | 7 | 3,264 |
| 1930 | 8 | 3,050 |
| 1931 | 12 | 2,220 |
| 1932 | 5 | 3,829 |
| 1934 | 8 | 2,765 |
| 1935 | 6 | 3,294 |
| 1937 | 6 | 3,203 |
| 1938 | 5 | 3,569 |
| 1939 | 5 | 3,526 |
| 1941 | 7 | 2,893 |
| 1943 | 5 | 3,592 |
| 1949 | 5 | 3,738 |
| 1953 | 5 | 3,854 |
| 1956 | 5 | 3,995 |

## People named Berthold

- Berthold Auerbach, German author (1812–1882)
- Berthold, Duke of Bavaria
- Berthold IV, Duke of Merania, Duke of Merania and Margrave of Istria (1153–1204)
- Berthold II, Duke of Swabia, Duke of Swabia
- Berthold Delbrück, German comparative linguist and Sanskrit scholar (1842–1922)
- Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen, Duke of Zähringen
- Berthold IV, Duke of Zähringen, Duke of Zähringen and Rector of Burgundy
- Berthold II, Duke of Carinthia, Duke of Carinthia and Margrave of Verona
- Berthold Englisch, Austrian chess player (1851–1897)
- Berthold Carl Seemann, German botanist (1825–1871)
- Berthold III, Duke of Zähringen, duke of Zähringen
- Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German noble (1905–1944)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.