Bertie

Where Bertie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Bertie.

  • Vowel-ended
Bertie through the years
  1. 1880
    Bertie Charles Forbes born
    American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #169 among girls, with 77 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1886
    Peak, #154
    151 babies named Bertie, its best rank.
  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 on, more girls have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.