Bertha (first name)
Bertha (other spelling: Berta ) is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
The name goes back to ahd. "Berath", which means something like "shiny", "radiant" and occurs as a component in other German names (such as Albert or Berthold ).
distribution
In the last decade of the 19th century, the name Bertha was among the ten most common girls' names in Germany. Then its popularity continued to decline. Since the 1930s, hardly any girls have been called Bertha.
name day
Name days are the 28. November , the July 4 and 6. August (after the Holy Berta ).
variants
- Berta (German, Italian, Czech, Hungarian, Spanish, Polish, Slovenian)
- Berhta (Old High German)
- Berthe, Bertille (French)
Well-known namesake
- the mythical figure of Bertha - see Perchta
- Bertha of Kent (539– around 612), Queen of Kent as wife of King Ethelbert of Kent
- Berta von Bingen (7th / 8th century), saint
- Bertha with the big foot - see Bertrada the Younger (around 725–783), mother of Charlemagne
- Bertha (daughter of Charlemagne) (775–828), Carolingian nobleman
- Bertha (Fraumünster) (839–877), abbess of the Fraumünster monastery
- Berta of Alemannia (around 907–966), Queen of Burgundy and Lombardy
- Bertha of Burgundy (around 967-1016), Queen of France as the wife of Robert II.
- Bertha von Turin (1051-1087), German empress as wife of Henry IV.
- Bertha von Holland (around 1055-1094), Queen of France as the wife of Philip I.
- Bertha (wife of Hermann III of Baden) (around 1116 – around 1150), Margravine of Baden
- Bertha von Sulzbach († 1160), daughter of Sulzbacher Count Berengar I († 1125) and Adelheid von Wolfratshausen, Empress of Byzantium (Irene)
- Bertha von Schwaben , († 1194/95) daughter of Duke Friedrich II. (Swabia) , Duchess of Lorraine as wife of Duke Matthew I (Lorraine)
- Berta von Arnsberg († 1292), abbess of the women's monastery in Essen
Variant of Bertha
- Bertha von Arnswaldt (1850–1919), Berlin salonière
- Bertha Benz (1849–1944), automobile pioneer
- Bertha Diener (1874–1948), Austrian writer and travel journalist
- Bertha Henderson , American blues singer
- Bertha Hill (1905–1950), American blues, jazz and vaudeville singer and dancer
- Bertha Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach (1886–1957), member of the Krupp industrial family
- Bertha von Suttner (1843–1914), Austrian peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Variant of Berta
- Berta Drews (1901–1987), German actress
- Berta Hummel (1909–1946), German Franciscan, draftsman and painter, see Maria Innocentia Hummel
- Berta Karlik (1904–1990), Austrian physicist
- Berta Lask (1878–1967), Polish-German poet, playwright and journalist
- Berta Zuckerkandl-Szeps (1864–1945), Austrian writer and salonnière
Variant of Berthe
- Berthe Art (1857–1934), Belgian painter
- Berthe Morisot (1841–1895), French painter