Bertram
2025 SSA
About Bertram
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.
Pronounced BER-truhm.
As of October 2026, Bertram ranked #8353 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #337 in 1895.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Bertram on lists
Famous Bertrams
- 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
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.