girls:
178 births since 1915
#5538 (3rd percentile)
boys:
40k births since 1880
#561 (88th percentile)
overall:
40.2k births since 1880
#1236 (84th percentile)
The name Wilbert is the #1,236 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 40,153 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 84.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #561 (87.8% percentile) for all time with 39,975 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,538 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 178 births since 1915.
Wilbert has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1915 for girls).
The name Wilbert has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Wilbert reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 70.9% percentile (ranked #161) with 790 births per million. The name was most common in 1922, with 802 births per million (ranked 69.9% percentile). Despite a low point around 2000, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Wilbert ranks #898 for boys (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 1.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Wilbert reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #595) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1974.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wilbert".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Wilbert. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.9% confident that Wilbert is pronounced as WIHL-bert, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is WIHL-buhrt, at 9.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like W 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.
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