Given name
Birtha
“one who is famously bright and beautiful”
Birtha is a variant of Bertha. One German interpretation is “one who is famously bright and beautiful.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Birtha 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
Birtha 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 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Birtha through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,973
- 0 boys · 1,973 girls
- Most popular year
- 1926
- 67 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 1969. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 67 in 1926. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 219 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.
Birtha’s family of names
Birtha has a related form in Bertha. In Danish usage, Birtha has a conventional equivalent in the German form Brigitte.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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