Berta
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Amharic (Ethiopia); Gurage usage: 'be strong, be vigilant, persevere'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/beɾta/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Berta is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 52nd most common given name.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 619(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 2.4K
- PEPeru≈1 in 627as Bertha
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Berta itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 346 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 619 (inferred from the name graph)
64,455 named Bertha, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bertha in PE Peru, US United States, EC Ecuador and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Amharic (Ethiopia); Gurage usage: 'be strong, be vigilant, persevere'
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Berta is read(measured from records)
Berta is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish68%
Germánico; hipocorístico de nombres con berht 'brillo, resplandor'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English15%
lang., Ethiopia, Sudan
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Berta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 64,455as Bertha | 1 in 5.2K | 64K | Bertha | 346 |
| PE Peru | #114 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 627 | — | Bertha | 76 |
| TZ Tanzania | #296 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Bertha | 29 |
| ES Spain | #368 | 20,618 | 1 in 2.4K | 21K | Berta | 171 |
| CO Colombia | #406 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 15 | Bertha | 81 |
| EC Ecuador | #173 | 19,678as Bertha | 1 in 859 | 20K | Bertha | 48 |
| SV El Salvador | #172 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 619 | — | Berta | 25 |
| NI Nicaragua | #52 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 743 | — | Bertha | 19 |
64,455 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)
Berta is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Amharic, Amharic (Ethiopia); Gurage usage: 'be strong, be vigilant, persevere'
as a nameAfrican Names
Sudan/Ethiopia people; language isolate group
as a nameAfrican Names
In Italian, Germanico; abbreviazione di nomi in bert- ('illustre'). Il femminile può anche essere autonomo.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Swedish, Berta är ursprungligen en smekform till namn på → Bert- och -berta, t.ex. Adalberta. I den rikssvenska almanackan 8 februari och i den finlandssvenska 24 augusti.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Bertrada of Laonb. 800VEnot in their usual nameFrankish queen
- Bertha of Savoyb. 1051DEHoly Roman Empress from 1084 to 1087
- Bertha von Suttnerb. 1843CZAustrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor
- Bertha Benzb. 1849DEGerman automobile pioneer, with husband Karl Benz (1849–1944)
- Bertha Pappenheimb. 1859ATAustrian feminist (1859–1936)
- Princess Maud, Countess of Southeskb. 1893GBnot in their usual nameBritish princess; youngest child of Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, and Louise, Princess Royal (1893–1945)
- Leni Riefenstahlb. 1902DEnot in their usual nameGerman filmmaker, photographer, actress, and nazi propagandist (1902–2003)
- Bertha Swirlesb. 1903GBBritish mathematician & academic (1903-1999)
- Gretl Braunb. 1915DEnot in their usual namesister of Eva Braun (1915-1987); sister-in-law of Adolf Hitler
- Berta Cáceresb. 1973HNHonduran environmental activist
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 100 sources across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 21K | #337 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 20K | #185 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12K | #2,223 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 2K | #615 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 23 | #2,223 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 9 | — |
Reference works 8
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Berta mean, and where does it come from?
- Amharic (Ethiopia); Gurage usage: 'be strong, be vigilant, persevere' Recorded by African Names.
- Is Berta a male or female name?
- Berta 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.
- In which country does Berta have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 64 thousand people named Bertha, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Berta?
- In Spain, the national register counted 20,618 people named Berta, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Berta compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Berta is the 52nd most common given name of 16,569 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Berta?
- A machine transcription gives /beɾta/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Berta?
- In the etymology graph, Bertha, Berthe and Birdie are forms of the same name in other languages.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bertaThe 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, “Berta” — the 52nd most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.