Herbert
Herbert is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 55 births. Its best rank was 25th, in 1928–1929.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 550.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19288,065 births
- Best rank
- #25first in 1928
- Since 1880
- 229,328people given the name
The story in the numbers
228,211 boys have been named Herbert in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1928, with 8,065 births — 0.73% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 55 births in 2024, against 8,065 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 122 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 67 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,117 girls have also been given it, 0.49% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Herbert | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 4,257 | |
| 1890s | 5,660 | |
| 1900s | 6,957 | |
| 1910s | 33,860 | |
| 1920s | 56,531 | |
| 1930s | 37,821 | |
| 1940s | 28,708 | |
| 1950s | 24,296 | |
| 1960s | 13,702 | |
| 1970s | 7,248 | |
| 1980s | 4,463 | |
| 1990s | 2,409 | |
| 2000s | 1,234 | |
| 2010s | 767 | |
| 2020s | 298 |
In 1928, its biggest year
Herbert was the 25th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1928 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1928.
Names that rose and fell with Herbert
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Floydpeak 1926
- Alfredpeak 1928
- Rudolphpeak 1927
- Clydepeak 1920
- Earlpeak 1921
- Eldridgepeak 1924
- Alviepeak 1921
- Earnestpeak 1926
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.