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Roughly 10,000 Berts are alive in the US today, we estimate. About 1 in 33,000 Americans.
Made from recorded births by year and sex, multiplied by survival to today's age (SSA life table). It can't see immigration, and it's an estimate, not a census: how the living estimate is made.
When H. G. Wells needed a name for the everyman hero of The War in the Air, he picked Bert, and introduced him like this:
Bert, it is necessary to explain, was a progressive Smallways.H. G. Wells, The War in the Air (1908)public domain
The records agree with the era: Bert peaked in 1918, with 715 recorded in that one year, and the trend has read fading for a long time. Roughly 10,000 Berts are alive in the US today, we estimate.
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