Given name & surname
Berthe
“one who is famously bright and beautiful”
Berthe is a variant of Bertha. One German interpretation is “one who is famously bright and beautiful.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Berthe is a variant of Bertha. One German interpretation is “one who is famously bright and beautiful.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Berthe is a variant of Bertha. An origin associated with Bertha is Germanic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1890. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Berthe through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 185
- 0 boys · 185 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1929. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 1916. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 240 as a first name in 2020; 169 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Berthe’s family of names
Berthe shares a linguistic root with Bertha. In Norwegian usage, Berthe has a conventional equivalent in the German form Brigitte. Berthe has a related form in Bertha.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Berthe has relatives in 9 languages.
6 related names in 9 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Berthe
- Berthe MorisotFrench painter (1841-1895)
- Bertha of HollandFrench Queen1055–1094
- Bertha of BurgundyQueen of the Franks from 996 to 1001964–1010
- Bertha of Swabia10th-century Queen of Burgundy and Italy907
- Bertha of BrittanyFrench politician1114–1156
- Berthe Bénichou-AboulkerFrench writer (1886-1942)
- Berthe BovyBelgian actress (1887-1977)
- Berthe Hoola van NootenDutch botanist, author and scientific illustrator (1817-1892)
- Bertha of BloisDuchess consort of Brittany1005–1080
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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