Berenise vs Bert

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Berenise Bert

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Bert for 130 years and Berenise for 16 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

• 1880–1992 Bert ahead
• 1993 Berenise ahead
• 1994 Bert ahead
• 1995–1997 Berenise ahead
• 1998 Bert ahead
• 1999–2010 Berenise ahead
• 2011–2025 Bert ahead

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Berts alive today are over 65; half the Berenises are over 28. That is 37 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Berenise California (8.0×), Texas (2.2×)
• Bert Hawaii (4.6×), Oklahoma (2.7×), Montana (2.5×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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