# Bertie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bertie/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 14,592 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 856 / 13,736 (94% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,912, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 13 | 4,320 |
| 1975 | 7 | 7,242 |
| 1976 | 5 | 9,429 |
| 1977 | 6 | 8,544 |
| 1978 | 6 | 8,656 |
| 1986 | 5 | 11,084 |
| 2015 | 5 | 16,867 |
| 2018 | 10 | 9,939 |
| 2019 | 14 | 7,802 |
| 2020 | 9 | 10,384 |
| 2021 | 13 | 8,101 |
| 2022 | 9 | 10,526 |
| 2023 | 15 | 7,307 |
| 2024 | 14 | 7,655 |
| 2025 | 11 | 8,955 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 6 | 3,249 |
| 1943 | 9 | 2,576 |
| 1944 | 9 | 2,484 |
| 1945 | 10 | 2,261 |
| 1946 | 8 | 2,713 |
| 1947 | 8 | 2,895 |
| 1949 | 8 | 2,818 |
| 1950 | 5 | 3,737 |
| 1951 | 5 | 3,762 |
| 1953 | 8 | 2,929 |
| 1956 | 5 | 3,996 |
| 1960 | 5 | 4,085 |
| 1962 | 5 | 4,094 |
| 1966 | 5 | 4,000 |
| 1979 | 5 | 6,144 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4,192 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 95 | 416 |
| 2012 | 94 | 422 |
| 2013 | 99 | 409 |
| 2014 | 139 | 328 |
| 2015 | 152 | 305 |
| 2016 | 155 | 312 |
| 2017 | 162 | 308 |
| 2018 | 196 | 261 |
| 2019 | 206 | 243 |
| 2020 | 239 | 215 |
| 2021 | 246 | 215 |
| 2022 | 205 | 235 |
| 2023 | 233 | 211 |
| 2024 | 182 | 257 |
| 2025 | 173 | 264 |

## People named Bertie

- Bertie Ahern, 11th Taoiseach of Ireland from 1997 to 2008
- Bertie Charles Forbes, American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880–1954)
- Bertie Mee, English footballer and manager (1918-2001)
- Bertie Hill, British equestrian
- Bertie Higgins, American singer-songwriter
- Ivor Gurney, British composer and poet

## 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.