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Bertil

Germanic languages roots

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Swedish

Origin: Germanic languages
5 language contexts: French Swedish Danish +2 more
Follow the evidence: 7 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Bertil

Bertil is a masculine given name documented in French, Swedish, Danish and 2 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Germanic.

Germanic languages origin

Source-reported

Medieval equivalent of modern German Berthold, from Germanic berht "bright" + wald "rule". First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1396.

Sources for this account (5)

Wiktionary: BertilCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: BertilCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: BertilCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: BertilCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: BertilCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

02 / Across borders

Where Bertil is used

Explore official naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Bertil’s connections around the world.

4 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Official statistics

United States, 1952: 5 boys (rank 3734).

Explore United States

4 of 9 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Bertil

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 1952: 5; applications; Rank #3,734
Peak year: 1914; 31 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Bertil in United States, boys: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	16	1,174	observed
1913	17	1,256	observed
1914	31	1,003	observed
1915	24	1,372	observed
1916	28	1,265	observed
1917	21	1,587	observed
1918	23	1,539	observed
1919	16	1,973	observed
1920	11	2,602	observed
1921	27	1,448	observed
1922	9	3,014	observed
1923	18	1,874	observed
1924	13	2,347	observed
1925	22	1,628	observed
1926	14	2,186	observed
1927	13	2,298	observed
1928	15	2,048	observed
1929	11	2,452	observed
1930	11	2,444	observed
1931	14	2,003	observed
1932	12	2,191	observed
1933	5	3,642	observed
1934	12	2,121	observed
1935	13	2,029	observed
1936	12	2,062	observed
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	18	1,613	observed
1939	9	2,449	observed
1940	8	2,671	observed
1941	6	3,133	observed
1942	8	2,712	observed
1943	5	3,538	observed
1944	9	2,467	observed
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	6	3,316	observed
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	5	3,734	observed
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	no value	no value	not covered
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	no value	no value	not covered
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Bertil” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

No historical attestations or sourced notable bearers are recorded yet. Historical databases are being evaluated for reuse permission; nothing is listed until a record can be cited.

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Bertil with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms6

Wikidata Q19687104CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: BertilCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: BertilCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: BertilCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: BertilCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: BertilCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Bertil.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Official statisticsPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates4

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Bertil

Bertil is a masculine given name documented in French, Swedish, Danish and 2 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Germanic.

Germanic languages origin

Source-reported

Medieval equivalent of modern German Berthold, from Germanic berht "bright" + wald "rule". First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1396.

Sources for this account (5)

Wiktionary: BertilCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: BertilCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: BertilCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: BertilCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: BertilCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Where Bertil is used

Explore official naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Bertil’s connections around the world.

4 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Official statistics

United States, 1952: 5 boys (rank 3734).

Explore United States

4 of 9 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Bertil

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 1952: 5; applications; Rank #3,734
Peak year: 1914; 31 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Bertil in United States, boys: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	16	1,174	observed
1913	17	1,256	observed
1914	31	1,003	observed
1915	24	1,372	observed
1916	28	1,265	observed
1917	21	1,587	observed
1918	23	1,539	observed
1919	16	1,973	observed
1920	11	2,602	observed
1921	27	1,448	observed
1922	9	3,014	observed
1923	18	1,874	observed
1924	13	2,347	observed
1925	22	1,628	observed
1926	14	2,186	observed
1927	13	2,298	observed
1928	15	2,048	observed
1929	11	2,452	observed
1930	11	2,444	observed
1931	14	2,003	observed
1932	12	2,191	observed
1933	5	3,642	observed
1934	12	2,121	observed
1935	13	2,029	observed
1936	12	2,062	observed
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	18	1,613	observed
1939	9	2,449	observed
1940	8	2,671	observed
1941	6	3,133	observed
1942	8	2,712	observed
1943	5	3,538	observed
1944	9	2,467	observed
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	6	3,316	observed
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	5	3,734	observed
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	no value	no value	not covered
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	no value	no value	not covered
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms6

Wikidata Q19687104CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: BertilCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: BertilCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: BertilCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: BertilCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: BertilCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Bertil.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Official statisticsPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates4

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Bertil

About Bertil

Germanic languages origin

Where Bertil is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Bertilo

Pärttyli

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

Bertil

About Bertil

Germanic languages origin

Where Bertil is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Bertilo

Pärttyli

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Bertil

Germanic languages origin

Where Bertil is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Bertilo

Pärttyli

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Bertil

Germanic languages origin

Where Bertil is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Bertilo

Pärttyli

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page