Bertina
given name · Latin script
Meaning: diminutive of Bertha
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɝtinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bertina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 329K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 8.6K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
diminutive of Bertha
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bertina counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Bertina | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 2,012 | 1 in 8.6K | 2K | Bertina | 23 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Bertina | 7 |
| US United States | 1,010 | 1 in 329K | 1K | Bertina | 184 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Bertina | 11 |
| AL Albania | 122 | 1 in 25K | 122 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 14 | 1 in 54K | 14 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bertina is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bertina Lopesb. 1924MZMozambican painter and sculptor (1924–2012)
- Bertina Fischlováb. 1925PLHolocaust victim (born 1925)
- Bertina Mulderb. 1962NLwriter from the Netherlands
- Bertina Henrichsb. 1966DEGerman writer
- Donata Bertina Boerackerperson
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 56 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 2K | #836 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1K | #12,354 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 527 | #3,110 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 122 | #2,529 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 46 | #7,040 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 14 | #580 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 5 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bertina mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of Bertha Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Bertina?
- A machine transcription gives /bɝtinə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Bertina a male or female name?
- Bertina 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 are other forms of the name Bertina?
- In the etymology graph, Alberta, Albertina and Birdie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Bertina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.6 thousand people named Bertina in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bertina.
- Where is Bertina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bertina is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 8.6 thousand people — even though Congo - Kinshasa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bertina?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,012 people named Bertina, about 1 in 8.6 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bertinaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Bertina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.