Berta

Where Berta comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Berta.

  • Vowel-ended
Berta through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #326 among girls with 24 babies in the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1904
    Berta Karlik born
    Austrian physicist
  3. 1973
    Berta Cáceres born
    Honduran environmental activist
  4. 1999
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #8,805.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Bertha.
Namesakes
  • Berta Cáceres · Honduran environmental activist, 1973–2016
  • Berta Karlik · Austrian physicist, 1904–1990
  • Berta Ambrož · Slovenian singer, 1944–2003
  • Berta Vázquez · Ukrainian-Spanish actress and singer, born 1992
  • Berta Hrubá · Olympic medalist, 1946–1998

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.