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