Berto

surname · Latin script

Meaning: forma italiana de Bertus

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/bɛɾtu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Berto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 80K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 84K

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.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

≈11,000 people, est.

Sources
158 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

forma italiana de Bertus

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Berto 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.

Where Berto is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#605≈11,000 est.≈1 in 20K1.4KBerto120
IT Italy—≈3,900 est.≈1 in 16K1Berto73
PH Philippines—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 84KlistedBerto23
FR France—≈750 est.≈1 in 91K71—5
ES Spain—6221 in 80K622Berto61
UY Uruguay—3101 in 11K310Berto13
PT Portugal—≈240 est.≈1 in 42KlistedBerto30

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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Berto is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, Italy, United States

    Also written Beȑtổ, Bertó, Bertò, Bertô

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Bertó

  • Croatian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Italy

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

    Also written Bertó, Берто

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Bertò, Bertó

  • Norwegian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Denmark

    Languages: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish

    Also written Bertó

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Berto is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Cebuano, a diminutive of the male given names Roberto or Alberto

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

1850190019502000Augusto Berto, b. 1889Jo Berto, b. 1907Giuseppe Berto, b. 1914Michel Berto, b. 1939Juliet Berto, b. 1947Stephanie Berto, b. 1953Nazzareno Berto, b. 1957Marie Berto, b. 1960Francesco Berto, b. 1973Andre Berto, b. 1983

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)

FormalPrezado Sr. Berto,Dear Mr Berto, (English)
InformalOlá Berto,Hi Berto, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 56 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Berto
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—622#6,695
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—622#6,686
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—310—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199171—
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———

Reference works 5

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 Berto mean, and where does it come from?
forma italiana de Bertus Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
What are other forms of the name Berto?
In the etymology graph, Roberts, Albrecht and Baer are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Berto?
A machine transcription gives /bɛɾtu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
In which country does Berto have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Berto in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled berto.
Where is Berto most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Berto is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Berto?
In Spain, the national register counted 622 people named Berto, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
How common is Berto compared with other names?
In Brazil, Berto is the 605th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Berto” — the 605th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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