Berthe

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Berthe is a given name, most frequently recorded in France. In Mali it is the 73rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and French (Côte d’Ivoire), written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: de (La) Berthe, nom de plusieurs localités dans le sud de la France.

rarermore common
  • MQMartinique1 in 639◐
  • FRFrance1 in 2K
  • ESSpain1 in 2.4K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈113K ●

across 14 countries

Sources
238 ●

70K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 859 ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bertha in US United States, PE Peru, GB United Kingdom and Berta in ES Spain, NL Netherlands, CH Switzerland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in French

de (La) Berthe, nom de plusieurs localités dans le sud de la France

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Berthe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#340265,75756K rec.—71KBerthe238
US United States—64,319△7.3K rec.1 in 5.2K64KBertha111
ES Spain—20,618△427 rec.1 in 2.4K21KBerta48
EC Ecuador—19,678△2 rec.1 in 85920K—6
BE Belgium#5983,2573.4K rec.—263Berthe42
PL Poland—1,748—1 in 22K1.7K——
CZ Czechia—1,510—1 in 7.1K1.5K——
BR Brazil—1,509—1 in 140K2.1K——
SE Sweden—1,210△3 rec.1 in 8.4K1.2K—3
CR Costa Rica—1,047—1 in 4.9K1K——
MQ Martinique#1381,01528 rec.—5Berthe3
GP Guadeloupe#1708301 rec.—5Berthe2

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French259K95%
  • French (Côte d’Ivoire)4.3K2%
  • English3.3K1%
  • Dutch8841%
  • Western Frisian8181%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French258,67995%
French (Côte d’Ivoire)4,2912%
English3,3111%
Dutch8841%
Western Frisian8181%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Berthe is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name10K records spelled Berthe8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, Dutch, Western Frisian

    Also written Berthé

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name4.6K records spelled Berthe2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Berthé

  • Spanish given name2.9K records spelled Berthe85 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Peru, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Russian

    Also written Bertha, Berta, Берта, Бэрта, Berte

  • a separate given name522 records spelled Berthe2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Belgium, Mali, Morocco

    Also written Berthé

  • Arabic given name119 records spelled Berthe4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Cameroon, Belgium

    Also written Berthé, Berthė

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Berthe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Du germanique *berht* « brillant, illustre ». Fête le 4 juillet (sainte Berthe).

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Féminin de Bertrand; origine germanique, « illustre ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, From Germanic berht 'bright, famous'.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In English, French form of Bertha; bright, famous

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  • In English, A sort of trim added to the neckline of a dress.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05101520190019201940196020 · 1956

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Berthe in INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe), Guadeloupe, 1900–1975
Yearrecords
19005
190110
19025
19035
19045
190510
190610
190715
190810
190910
19105
191110
19125
191310
19145
19155
191615
191710
191815
19195
192010
192115
19225
192315
192415
192515
192610
192710
192815
19295
193010
193115
193210
193310
193415
193515
193615
193710
193815
19395
194010
19415
194210
194310
194415
194510
19465
194715
194815
194910
195010
195110
195210
195310
195410
195510
195620
195710
195810
195915
196010
196115
196215
196315
196410
19655
19665
19675
19685
19695
197010
197110
19725
19755

GP INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) — 74 years between 1900–1975. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

500100015002000Bertrada of Laon, b. 800Bertha of Swabia, b. 907Bertha of Burgundy, b. 964Bertha of Blois, b. 1005Bertha of Holland, b. 1055Bertha of Sulzbach, b. 1110Bertha, Duchess of Brittany, b. 1114Berthe Hoola van Nooten, b. 1817Berthe Morisot, b. 1841Berthe Bovy, b. 1887

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 51 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Berthe
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)197471K#1,088
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—2.1K#266
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991780—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—653#1,712
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—278#3,767
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—263#6,642
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008249#6,725
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020239#34,154
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020169#110,961
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—164#6,090
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—138—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010126#133,863

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 313 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Berthe?
We estimate roughly 113 thousand people bear Berthe (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Berthe have the most bearers?
Berthe is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled berthe.
How common is Berthe compared with other names?
In France, Berthe is the 340th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
Is Berthe a male or female name?
Berthe is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Berthe mean?
Recorded meaning: de (La) Berthe, nom de plusieurs localités dans le sud de la France
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Berthe” — the 340th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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