The name Bernie is a German baby name. In German the meaning of the name Bernie is: Brave as a bear.
Bert is a hypocoristic form of a number of Germanic male given names, such as Robert, Herbert, Gilbert, Norbert, Bertram, Berthold, and Albert. There is a large number of Germanic names ending in -bert, second in number only to those ending in -wolf (-olf, -ulf).
Bertha is a female Germanic name, from Old High German berhta meaning "bright one". The name occurs as a theonym, surviving as Berchta, a figure in Alpine folklore connected to the Wild Hunt, probably an epithet of *FrijjÅ in origin. Bertha appears as a Frankish given name from as early as the 6th century.
The name of the star that marks the right shoulder of the constellation Orion. It is derived from Arabic يد الجوزا (yad al-Jawza) meaning "the hand of Jawza". جوزا (Jawza) meaning "central one" was the old Arabic name for the constellation Orion (also for Gemini).
Origin of the name Beverly: Transferred use of the surname derived from the Old English elements beofor (beaver) and lēac (stream): hence, "dweller near the beaver stream." Var: Beverleigh, Beverlie, Beverley.
