Origin and popularity of the name BERT

Origin

Bert : 1: German French and Polish: from a short form of various compound personal names formed with ancient Germanic berht ‘bright famous’ (see for example Bertram).2: English: from the Middle English female personal name Berte (Old French Berte from ancient Germanic Berta).

Bart : 1: German: variant of Barth 1 ‘beard’. This name which can not be always distinguished from 3 below is also found in Poland Czechia Slovakia and Slovenia sometimes as a German translation of Slavic surnames meaning ‘beard’ or ‘bearded man’ e.g. Polish Broda Czech and Slovak Bradáč Slovenian Bradač (see Bradac).2: North German: from the personal name Bart a short form of ancient Germanic names based on the element bert ‘bright brilliant’ as for example Barthold.3: Dutch German English French Polish Sorbian and Slovak; Czech (Bárt): from the personal name Bart (Czech Bárt) a vernacular short form of local variants of Latin Bartholomaeus (see Bartholomew). This may also be the origin of a homonymous Slovenian surname (see 1 above).4: French: variant of Bard 1.

Berto : 1: Italian: from the personal name Berto a short form of any of various ancient Germanic names formed with bert (from berht ‘bright famous’) for example Alberto Gilberto Norberto Roberto Umberto.2: Hungarian (Bertó): from a pet form of the personal name Bertalan Hungarian form of Bartholomew.

Goldbart : from Yiddish gold + bert or bart ‘gold beard’ with reference to hair colour.

Lebert : 2: German: from Middle High German lēbart ‘leopard’ a nickname for a brave or healthy man or most probably a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a leopard.1: German: from the medieval personal name Lebert a variant of Liebert (see Liebhart).3: French: variant with fused masculine definite article le of Bert.4: Breton (Le Bert): variant of Le Ber ‘short’ (see Leber).

Thobe : North German: from a pet form of one of the ancient Germanic personal names formed with diot ‘people’ as the first element and bald ‘bold’ bert ‘shining’ or brand ‘sword’ as the second.

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