Bertram

German

"bright raven"

Bertram Origin and Meaning

The name Bertram is a boy's name of German origin meaning "bright raven".

Last in fashion in the 1930s, Bertram might once have been firmly in the best left in the past category, but with sweet nickname Bertie and the cool option of Bram, Bertram might just be one to reconsider. Fitting in with other clunky vintage options like Chester, Sidney, Abram, Ebenenzer, and Wilfred, Bertram is a literary option, appearing as the full first name of P.G. Wodehouse's inimitable Bertie Wooster and on a character in Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well.

Not to be confused with Bertrand (though the two often do get conflated), Bertram is derived from Old German and has the stylish and mystical meaning of "bright raven". A nature and bird inspired choice, it has a hint of Halloween about it too, thanks to the raven link.

Bertram briefly entered the UK charts in the 1990s, and ranked in Denmark up until 2016, which in the US, a recent year saw it given to just 10 boys. In England and Wales, it was chosen for 9 boys, placing it alongside Blaise, Boston, Gordon, Gunnar, and Oakes.

Bertram Rank in US Top 1000

# 987 in the US

Popularity of the name Bertram

• 310 Nameberry 2025

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Famous People Named Bertram

• Bertram Goodhue American architect
• Bertram Stevens Australian politician, former premier of New South Wales
• Bertram Mackennal Australian sculptor
• Bertram Ramsay British admiral in WWII
• Bertram Brockhouse Canadian physicist and Nobel Prize winner

The name Bertram in Pop Culture

• Bertram "Bertie" Wooster character in P.G. Wodehouse novels
• Bertram Aubrey character in the Harry Potter series
• Bertram Winkle character on TV's "Jessie"
• Bertram Baudelaire father of the children in A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Bertram Pincus main character from movie "Ghost Town"
• Bertram Babington Bloor character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
• Bertram Bedlington character in The Sims video game series
• Bertram Grover Weeks character in the movie "The Sandlot"
• Edmund Bertram character in Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park"
• "At Bertram's Hotel " novel by Agatha Christie
• Bertram Griffin character on the TV series "Family Guy" and half brother of Stewie, Bertram shares many qualities of Stewie, these appear to include intelligence, strategy and rampant megalomania. Bertram also has an American football/rugby ball,shaped head like Stewie. Bertram is voiced by Wallace Shawn.

International Variations of the name Bertram

• Beltrano Spanish
• Beltrán Spanish
• Bertrand French