Meaning and history
Bert is a short form of Albert and other names containing the element bert, which is often derived from the Old German element beraht, meaning “bright.”
20062006: 18 births, rank #4,865
2007: 14 births, rank #5,901
2008: 13 births, rank #6,393
2009: 7 births, rank #9,864
2010: 9 births, rank #8,139
20112011: 10 births, rank #7,502
2012: 11 births, rank #7,050
2013: 9 births, rank #8,118
2014: 17 births, rank #5,252
2015: 12 births, rank #6,676
20162016: 14 births, rank #6,053
2017: 10 births, rank #7,546
2018: 11 births, rank #7,136
2019: 19 births, rank #4,951
2020: 9 births, rank #8,067
20212021: 7 births, rank #9,714
2022: 12 births, rank #6,828
2023: 8 births, rank #8,921
2024: 9 births, rank #8,312
20252025: 6 births, rank #10,695
Bert rose from #977 to #965 for boys between 1982 and 1983. Its highest annual birth count came in 1918, with 698 births.