girls:
1.1k births since 1894
#4599 (20th percentile)
boys:
228.2k births since 1880
#169 (96th percentile)
overall:
229.3k births since 1880
#349 (96th percentile)
The name Herbert is the #349 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 229,270 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #169 (96.3% percentile) for all time with 228,153 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,599 (19.5% percentile) for all time with 1,117 births since 1894.
Herbert has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1894 for girls).
The name Herbert has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Herbert reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 95.6% percentile (ranked #25) with 7,067 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 7,115 births per million (ranked 95.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Herbert ranks #850 for boys (6.7% percentile) with 36 births per million, which is 0.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Herbert reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 7.3% percentile (ranked #549) with 41 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 41 births per million (ranked 7.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Herbert".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Herbert. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Herbert is pronounced as HER-bert, which has 2 syllables.
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