Bertrand (name)

Bertrand is a given name and surname. In German, the name derives from berht ("bright") and hramn ("raven") or rand ("rim of shield").

Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 56.3% of all known bearers of the surname Bertrand were residents of France (frequency 1:902), 13.4% of Canada (1:2,103), 12.5% of the United States (1:22,092), 6.2% of Belgium (1:1,416) and 4.1% of Haiti (1:1,991).

In France, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:902) in the following regions:
 * 1. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (1:675)
 * 2. Occitanie (1:686)
 * 3. Grand Est (1:693)
 * 4. Centre-Val de Loire (1:722)
 * 5. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (1:748)
 * 6. Nouvelle-Aquitaine (1:792)
 * 7. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (1:836)

Given name

 * Bertrand Baguette (born 1986), Belgian racing driver
 * Bertrand Barère (1755–1841), French politician, freemason and journalist, one of the members of National Convention and leaders of Reign of Terror
 * Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube (late twelfth-early thirteenth century), French poet
 * Bertrand Berry (born 1975), American football player
 * Bertrand Blier (born 1939), a French director and screenwriter
 * Bertrand Cantat (born 1964), French songwriter, singer, and musician
 * Bertrand Clausel (1772–1842), Marshal of France, one of the principal commanders of Hundred Days War and Battle of Salamanca
 * Bertrand of Comminges (1050–1126), saint and Bishop of Comminges
 * Bertrand Crasson (born 1971), Belgian footballer
 * Bertrand Damaisin (born 1968), French judoka
 * Bertrand Delanoë (born 1950), French politician
 * Bertrand Gachot (born 1962), Franco-Belgian racing driver
 * Bertrand du Guesclin (c. 1320 – 1380), Constable of France
 * Bertrand H. Hoak (1917–1987), New York state senator
 * Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903–1987), French philosopher and political economist
 * Bertrand Lacaste (1897–1994), French clergyman and bishop
 * Bertrand Meyer (born 1950), computer scientist and author
 * Bertrand Nagymartoni, Aragonese-Hungarian nobleman
 * Prince Bertrand of Orléans-Braganza (born 1941), member of the Imperial House of Brazil
 * Bertrand Owundi (born 1993), Cameroonian footballer
 * Bertrand de Poulengy, French nobleman
 * Bertrand Ract-Madoux (born 1953), French Army general
 * Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, essayist, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate
 * Bertrand Serlet, a senior vice president of software engineering at Apple Inc.
 * Bertrand Tavernier, a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer

Fictional characters

 * Bertrand Baudelaire, a fictional character in A Series of Unfortunate Events
 * Bertrand Bell, a human fighter character in the D&D web series Critical Role
 * Bertrand Caillet, the protagonist of Guy Endore's novel The Werewolf of Paris
 * Bertrand, a monkey in the fable of The Monkey and the Cat
 * Bertrand de Gervaise, a character in Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight

Surname

 * Alexandre Bertrand (1820–1902), French archaeologist
 * Alexandre Jacques François Bertrand (1795–1831), French physician
 * Aloysius Bertrand (1807–1841), French poet
 * Antoine de Bertrand (c. 1540), French composer
 * Charles Bertrand (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Christophe Bertrand (1981–2010), French composer
 * Claude Bertrand (actor) (1919–1986), French actor
 * Claudine Bertrand (born 1948), Canadian educator and poet
 * Émile Bertrand (1844–1909), French mineralogist
 * Gabriel Bertrand (1867–1962), French biochemist and bacteriologist
 * Gustave Bertrand (1896–1976), French intelligence officer
 * Guy Bertrand (broadcaster) (born 1954), French Canadian linguist and radio/TV personality
 * Guy Bertrand (chemist), professor at UC Riverside and carbene specialist
 * Guy Bertrand (lawyer), Québec lawyer and political activist
 * Henri Gatien Bertrand (1773–1844), French general (First Empire)
 * Henri Bertrand (entomologist) (1892–1978), French entomologist
 * Jacob Bertrand (born 2000), American actor
 * JD Bertrand (born 2000), American football player
 * Jean-Jacques Bertrand (1916–1973), Premier of Quebec (1968–1970)
 * Jean-Michel Bertrand (1943–2008), French politician
 * John Bertrand (Australian sailor) (born 1946), Australian yachtsman
 * Joseph Bertrand (1822–1900), French mathematician
 * Julie Winnefred Bertrand (1891–2007), one-time oldest recognized woman in the world
 * Léon Bertrand (born 1951), French politician
 * Leopoldo Bertrand (born 1943), Spanish military engineer and politician
 * Louis Bertrand (disambiguation), multiple people with the name
 * Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (1847–1907), French geologist
 * Marcheline Bertrand, (1950–2007) American actress of French-Canadian descent and mother of Angelina Jolie
 * Marianne Bertrand, Belgian economist at the University of Chicago
 * Paul Bertrand (1879–1944), French botanist
 * Plastic Bertrand (born 1958), Belgian singer
 * Raymond Bertrand de Got (1264–1314), became Pope Clement V
 * Robert Bertrand (1953–2022), Canadian politician
 * Robert R. Bertrand (1906–2002), American sound engineer
 * Rosaire Bertrand (born 1936), Canadian politician
 * Ryan Bertrand (born 1989), English footballer
 * Sylvia Judith Bertrand (1930–2009), Dominican civil servant
 * Xavier Bertrand (born 1965), French politician
 * Yann Arthus-Bertrand (born 1946), French photographer
 * Yves Bertrand (1944–2013), French intelligence officer