Berth
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Chiefly in wide berth: a sufficient space in the water for a ship or other vessel to lie at anchor or manoeuvre without getting in the way of other vessels, or colliding into rocks or the shore
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɝθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Berth is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- SCSeychelles≈1 in 27K
- BEBelgium1 in 35K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈410 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Seychelles, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Chiefly in wide berth: a sufficient space in the water for a ship or other vessel to lie at anchor or manoeuvre without getting in the way of other vessels, or colliding into rocks or the shore.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Berth counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 196K | — | Berth | 61 |
| FR France | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 180K | 56 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | 334 | 1 in 35K | 334 | Berth | 18 |
| US United States | — | 238 | 1 in 1.4M | 307 | Berth | 102 |
| AR Argentina | — | 225 | 1 in 202K | 225 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 108 | 1 in 54K | 108 | — | 1 |
| SC Seychelles | #629 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Berth | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Berth is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Welsh, fair, fine, beautiful
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, A Co. Clare variant of Brett
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Édouard Berthb. 1875FRtheorist of French syndicalism (1875–1939)
- Paul Berthb. 1890DKDanish footballer (1890-1969)
- Raymond Berthb. 1924FRFrench soldier
- Joice Berthb. 1976BRBrazilian writer, activist, urban planner
- Kenneth Kristensen Berthb. 1977DKDanish politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 334 | #4,876 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 332 | #5,020 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 307 | #61,207 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 282 | #73,993 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 238 | #79,846 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 225 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 108 | #5,064 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 56 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 48 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Berth mean, and where does it come from?
- Chiefly in wide berth: a sufficient space in the water for a ship or other vessel to lie at anchor or manoeuvre without getting in the way of other vessels, or colliding into rocks or the shore. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Berth?
- A machine transcription gives /bɝθ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Berth have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 410 people named Berth in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled berth.
- How common is the name Berth?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 334 people named Berth in 2008, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
- How common is Berth compared with other names?
- In the Seychelles, Berth is the 629th most common surname of 2,002 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/berthThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Berth” — the 629th most common surname in Seychelles. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.