Comments for BERTHA:

Saint Bertha was a 7th-century abbess in Blangy, France. Her feast is July 4.

-- alberto  9/8/2005

When I hear the name Bertha, an overweight, unattractive woman immediately comes to mind.

-- puresimplicity  1/6/2006

Bertha is a hideous old lady's name, and you'd have to be smoking weed to give it to your child.

-- Dogsy  1/7/2006

In J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, Bertha Jorkins is a secondary character.

-- Ramariel  1/20/2006

Bertha is Edward Rochester's first wife in "Jane Eyre". She has gone mad and Mr. Rochester keeps her locked up in the top of their house. She is insanely jealous of Jane once she finds out that Jane is marrying Mr. Rochester. An interesting character.

-- eponine_pontmercy  1/30/2006

Bertha of the Big Foot was Charlemagne's mother.

-- Kosta  5/18/2006

The German pronunciation is BEHR-tah, and rather beautiful. It's a shame this pronunciation didn't carry over into English, and we are instead left with a name that appears to be universally loathed.
[pronunciation noted -ed]

-- Camilla  7/31/2006

Bertha was one of the maids in Gosford Park. Hmmm, I don't really like this name.

-- bellaboo  10/5/2006

I agree, when I hear the name Bertha, an overweight old red-ringleted woman comes into my mind, it probably didn't help that this is what Bertha looks like in Gosford Park.

-- bellaboo  10/5/2006

Why does Bertha sound so awful? Because we aren't pronouncing it correctly, that's why! "BER-ta" sounds much better than "BUR-tha", doesn't it? Why do English speakers slur their vowels?

-- gaelruadh19  1/17/2007

Listen to the German pronunciation of Bertha here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html

-- _satu_  2/13/2007

This was my great-grandmother's middle name. I'm glad they decided not to make it my middle name (I'm named for her). The German pronunciation is pretty though and since that is the language her family spoke at home when she was growing up I guess it wouldn't have been so bad.

-- YMPvt  3/4/2007

Bertha Pappenheim was the real name of Anna O., hysterical patient of famous psychoanalyst Josef Breuer. She's also Doctor Breuer's obsession in the book "When Nietzsche Wept", by Irvin D. Yalom.

-- ladysinger  4/11/2007

A famous bearer of this name was the late female wrestler Bertha Faye.

-- maidmideon  5/12/2007

'Big Bertha' is both the slang term for a fat woman and the name of the Howitzer gun, used in the First World War - hence the name's unpopularity in recent decades. The gun itself was named after Bertha Krupp (1886-1957), whose family were arms manufacturers based in Essen, Germany.

-- freeserve.co.uk  6/19/2007

I honestly have never realy liked the name Bertha. This is as there once was a game you could play at the seaside called Big Bertha. While fun, this ruined the name for me.

-- Luangi  6/23/2007

Am I the only one who actually likes this name? I think it's rather cute.

-- Skittsie13  12/11/2007

No matter how you pronounce it, this name is ugly, old-fashioned, and has connotations to fat women.

-- slight night shiver  4/20/2008

I'm sorry but this has to be one of the ugliest names I have ever heard.

-- svit-kona  6/7/2008

It's ugly, old-fashioned, and sounds like "birth a".

-- bananarama  9/19/2008

Hehe, I'm sorry to those who are named Bertha, but I seriously dislike this name. This gives me a mental image of an overweight woman who smokes and gives you a toothy grin. But hey, if I had a choice between Bertha and Placenta, which one do you think I'd choose? Both equally bad, but my gosh the latter is just awful and yes there is a girl named that!

-- _0TophasNails_1  11/19/2008

I can't picture this name on a little girl, but I have nothing against this name, anyway. I like the sound of it. =)

-- CanadianChibi  11/20/2008

It looks very beautiful, the German pronunciation is beautiful as well, but the English pronunciation is awful. If I were to use this, which I might, I'd definitely use the German pronunciation.

-- Anonymous User  1/16/2009

I do not like this name at all, neither pronunciation - German or English - sounds pretty to me. My mother always said this was a name for a cow. I think it conjures up an image of an old, overweight woman with curled hair who devotes her life to baking. Not the best image.

-- emmiix3  1/21/2009

In L. M. Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables" series, Anne's mother, who died when Anne was an infant, was named Bertha, and Anne considers it "a lovely name" for this reason. She eventually gives it to her youngest daughter, Bertha Marilla.

-- elizabeth hamlet  6/22/2009

I find this name to be a very ugly name, sorry! I think of fat women as a lot of people say.

-- CharlieRob  8/5/2009

What is it that makes people think of fat women when they hear this name because I completely agree. Just hideous!

-- Anonymous User  11/11/2009

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