Entry № 1381 · Old Germanic origin

Bertha Bertha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BUR-thah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Germanic
Meaning
"Bright (Queen of Kent, mother of Christian England)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Old Germanic)

A name that means "bright (queen of kent, mother of christian england)".

Bertha is from the Old Germanic beraht (bright). Bertha of Kent (c. 565-c. Her presence prepared the ground for Augustine of Canterbury's 597 mission — she had brought her chaplain and Christian worship to Kent decades earlier. The mother of Christian England.

Featured in Bede's Ecclesiastical History.

Bright (Queen of Kent, mother of Christian England) — a Old Germanic name.

The name in its native script.

Bertha
Transliteration
Bertha
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɜːr.θə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bertha stands.

Bertha does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Berthas before her.

Real people
Bertha of Kent
Queen of Kent.
c. 565 – c. 601
In fiction
Bertha
Bede's Ecclesiastical History.

Names connected to Bertha.

The number behind Bertha.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bertha reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.