girls:
673 births since 1904
#5043 (12th percentile)
boys:
129.9k births since 1880
#252 (95th percentile)
overall:
130.5k births since 1880
#573 (93rd percentile)
The name Gilbert is the #573 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 130,533 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 92.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #252 (94.5% percentile) for all time with 129,860 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,043 (11.7% percentile) for all time with 673 births since 1904.
Gilbert has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1904 for girls).
The name Gilbert has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gilbert reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 83.0% percentile (ranked #91) with 1,856 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 1,876 births per million (ranked 83.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1932, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Gilbert ranks #741 for boys (18.7% percentile) with 96 births per million, which is 5.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Gilbert reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #579) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 24 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gilbert".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Gilbert. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.7% confident that Gilbert is pronounced as GIHL-bert, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JIHL-bert, at 22.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like G IH1 L B ER0 T) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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