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Herbert

Pronounced /ˈhɜːbət/

Rank in 2024
#2,483
Born in 2024
55
Peak year
1928 · #25
Origin
Germanic

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 55 boys were named Herbert, about 1 in every 31,188.
  • It peaked in 1928 with 8,065 babies, ranked #25.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 228,211 boys have been named Herbert since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Herbert per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 4.8
    Greatest
  2. 3.4
    Silent
  3. 1.2
    Boomers
  4. 0.5
    Gen X
  5. 0.2
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 80,651 babies, 4.82 per 1,000. Silent: 71,198 babies, 3.45 per 1,000. Boomers: 43,520 babies, 1.16 per 1,000. Gen X: 13,571 babies, 0.50 per 1,000. Millennials: 5,765 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,025 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 813 babies, 0.04 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Old French Herbert, from Frankish *Hariberht.

  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, in modern use partly transferred back from the surname.
Origin
Germanic
Say it
/ˈhɜːbət/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Herbert, CC BY-SA 4.0.