Bertin

surname · Latin script

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

Bertin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In English, recorded as from OFr Bertin, OG Bertin, a diminutive of names in Berht-; first attested Bertinus 1112 Bury (Sf).

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 3.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • UYUruguay1 in 14K
  • CMCameroon≈1 in 20K

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈19,000 people, est.

Sources
320 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from OFr Bertin, OG Bertin, a diminutive of names in Berht-; first attested Bertinus 1112 Bury (Sf)

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Bertin is read(measured from records)

Bertin is one spelling over 3 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.

  • French77%

    Dérivé du nom germanique Berto, de berht « brillant, illustre ».

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

    Germanic berht: «brillant, illustre»; variante de Bert-

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • English9.8%

    from OFr Bertin, OG Bertin, a diminutive of names in Berht-; first attested Bertinus 1112 Bury (Sf)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

    Bertinus 1112 Bury (Sf), 1203 Cur (Sx); Bertinus Ruffyn 1322 FFK; Bartyn de Rankesley 1441 ShefA (Y); Peter Bertin 1204 ChR; John Bertyn 1296 SRSx. OFr Bertin, OG Bertin, a diminutive of names in Berht-. Michaelsson notes its use as a hypocoristic of Bertrand.

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

    Germanic; bright, famous

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • Spanish5.7%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Bertin in Spanish.

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)

Bertin 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.

Where Bertin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#129≈19,000 est.≈1 in 3.5K2.8KBertin320
BR Brazil—2,6211 in 81K2.6K——
IT Italy—≈1,500 est.≈1 in 41K—Bertin42
CM Cameroon#918≈1,400 est.≈1 in 20K—Bertin27
US United States—1,1361 in 293K1.3KBertin143
BE Belgium—4511 in 26K459Bertin54
UY Uruguay—2471 in 14K247——
MQ Martinique—≈19 est.≈1 in 23K5—5

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bertin is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Bertín, Bertìn, Bęrtïn

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bertín

  • Danish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Bertín

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Benin, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Bertín

65 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(measured from records)

Bertin 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 Italian, forma dialetal apocopada de Bertino

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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)

1700180019002000Rose Bertin, b. 1747Jean-Victor Bertin, b. 1767Édouard Bertin, b. 1797Louise Bertin, b. 1805Louis-Émile Bertin, b. 1840Jacques Bertin, b. 1918Françoise Bertin, b. 1925Roland Bertin, b. 1930Yori Bertin, b. 1940Jérôme Bertin, b. 1965

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(measured from records)

Attested in 68 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Bertin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19912.8K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.6K#3,838
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.1K#22,608
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020891#28,469
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000799#28,194
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—459#3,393
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008451#3,416
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—247—

Reference works 7

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 Bertin mean, and where does it come from?
from OFr Bertin, OG Bertin, a diminutive of names in Berht-; first attested Bertinus 1112 Bury (Sf) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
In which country does Bertin have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Bertin in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bertin.
How common is the name Bertin?
In Brazil, the national register counted 2,621 people named Bertin, about 1 in 81 thousand residents.
How common is Bertin compared with other names?
In France, Bertin is the 129th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Bertin” — the 129th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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