Bertram

German

"bright raven"

Bertram Origin and Meaning

The name Bertram is a boy's name of German origin meaning "bright raven".

Old Norman name last current in the 1930s, and firmly in our 'so far out it will always be out' category – despite its appearance as a Hogwarts student in Harry Potter. This is the full first name of P.G. Wodehouse's inimitable Bertie Wooster.

Bertram Rank in US Top 1000

# 987 in the US

Bertram Popularity

• 1602 Nameberry 2023

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Famous People Named Bertram

• Bertram Goodhue American architect
• Bertram Stevens Australian politician, former premier of New South Wales
• Bertram Mackennal Australian sculptor
• Bertram Ramsay British admiral in WWII
• Bertram Brockhouse Canadian physicist and Nobel Prize winner

Bertram in Pop Culture

• Bertram "Bertie" Wooster character in P.G. Wodehouse novels
• Bertram Aubrey character in the Harry Potter series
• Bertram Winkle character on TV's "Jessie"
• Bertram Baudelaire father of the children in A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Bertram Pincus main character from movie "Ghost Town"
• Bertram Babington Bloor character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
• Bertram Bedlington character in The Sims video game series
• Bertram Grover Weeks character in the movie "The Sandlot"
• Edmund Bertram character in Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park"
• "At Bertram's Hotel " novel by Agatha Christie
• Bertram Griffin character on the TV series "Family Guy" and half brother of Stewie, Bertram shares many qualities of Stewie, these appear to include intelligence, strategy and rampant megalomania. Bertram also has an American football/rugby ball,shaped head like Stewie. Bertram is voiced by Wallace Shawn.