Hubert
Hubert is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 32 births. Its best rank was 106th, in 1910.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 320.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19241,551 births
- Best rank
- #106in 1910
- Since 1880
- 57,538people given the name
The story in the numbers
57,538 boys have been named Hubert in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 1,551 births — 0.14% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 32 births in 2024, against 1,551 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 107 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Hubert | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 634 | |
| 1890s | 1,062 | |
| 1900s | 1,771 | |
| 1910s | 9,597 | |
| 1920s | 14,696 | |
| 1930s | 9,819 | |
| 1940s | 7,097 | |
| 1950s | 5,270 | |
| 1960s | 3,091 | |
| 1970s | 1,740 | |
| 1980s | 1,090 | |
| 1990s | 634 | |
| 2000s | 495 | |
| 2010s | 388 | |
| 2020s | 154 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Hubert was the 115th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1924 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Hubert
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Wilfredpeak 1920
- Loydpeak 1926
- Virgilpeak 1921
- Clairpeak 1923
- Milfordpeak 1921
- Francispeak 1918
- Ottispeak 1920
- Elwoodpeak 1921
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.