Given name
Bertine
“one who is famously bright and beautiful”
Bertine is a variant of Bertha. One German interpretation is “one who is famously bright and beautiful.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bertine 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
Bertine 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 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bertine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 110
- 0 boys · 110 girls
- Most popular year
- 1915
- 10 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 5 in 1936. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 1915. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 124 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bertine’s family of names
In French usage, Bertine is a diminutive of Albertine. Bertine has a related form in Bertha. In Danish usage, Bertine has a conventional equivalent in the German form Brigitte.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bertine has relatives in 3 languages.
4 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bertine
- Bertine ZetlitzNorwegian singerborn 1975
- Bertine SpijkermanDutch track cyclist and bicycle racerborn 1982
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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