Bertie

Where Bertie comes from

Bertie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    Bertie Charles Forbes born
    American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #169 among girls — 77 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1886
    Peak, #154
    151 babies named Bertie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1948
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,012.
  5. 1951
    Bertie Ahern born
    11th Taoiseach of Ireland from 1997 to 2008
  6. 1986
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Bertie Ahern · 11th Taoiseach of Ireland from 1997 to 2008, born 1951
  • Bertie Charles Forbes · American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine, 1880–1954
  • Bertie Mee · English footballer and manager, 1918–2001
  • Bertie Auld · Scottish footballer, football manager, 1938–2021
  • Bertie Peacock · Northern Irish association football player and manager, 1928–2004

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.