Bertha

The name Bertha [bur-thuh]is a female Germanic name. It comes from the Old High German word berhta, which means "the bright one". The name dates back to the 6th century. Bertha is not a popular name for girls (not in the top 1000 newborn names in the US in 2021), although it is being used for tropical storms on List 6 in the Atlantic naming list.

People named Bertha
 Bertha of Holland (c. 1055–1093), queen of France
 Bertha of Sulzbach (1110-1159), Byzantine empress
 Bertha Brainard (1890-1946), pioneering television executive
 Bertha Knight Landes (1868-1943), first female mayor of a major American city (Seattle, Washington)
 Bertha Runkle (1879-1958), American novelist and playwright
 Bertha Sánchez (born 1978), Colombian long-distance runner
 Bertha Wilson (1923-2007), first female Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
 Bertha Sanseverino ( 1946-2018), Uruguayan politician
 Bertha von Suttner (1843–1914), Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, editor
 Bertha Calloway (1925-2017), American activist and historian

Saints
 Saint Bertha of Kent (539-c. 612), Queen of Kent
 Saint Bertha of Val d'Or (d. c. 690), abbess
 Saint Bertha of Artois (mid 7th century - July 4, 725), abbess, daughter of Count Rigobert and Ursana
 Saint Bertha of Bingen (fl. c. 840?), mother of Saint Rupert of Bingen

Places
 Bertha, California, a former settlement
 Bertha, Minnesota, a city
 Bertha, Virginia, an unincorporated community
 Bertha, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
 Bertha Township, Todd County, Minnesota
 Bertha (Perth), former Roman fortress in Scotland
 Bertha Island, Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica

Astronomy
 154 Bertha, an asteroid

References

Category:Given names