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Baby name
Bertha
Girl
Origin of the name
Bertha comes from the Germanic berht, “bright, famous.”
Classic name
207,870births since 1880
1910sgeneration
No. 51rank at its peak, in 1918
Where babies named Bertha are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Bertha is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Bertha is most common in Mississippi (3.3 times), Alabama (2.7) and South Carolina (2.6), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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