girls:
189 births since 1912
#5527 (3rd percentile)
boys:
57.5k births since 1880
#448 (90th percentile)
overall:
57.7k births since 1880
#982 (87th percentile)
The name Hubert is the #982 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 57,693 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 87.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #448 (90.2% percentile) for all time with 57,504 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,527 (3.3% percentile) for all time with 189 births since 1912.
Hubert has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1912 for girls).
The name Hubert has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Hubert reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 79.6% percentile (ranked #114) with 1,327 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 1,460 births per million (ranked 78.0% percentile). Despite a low point around 2019, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Hubert ranks #893 for boys (2.0% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 0.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Hubert reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #582) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 13 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1948.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hubert".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Hubert. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.4% confident that Hubert is pronounced as HYUE-bert, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HUE-bert, at 32.6% 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 HH Y UW1 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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