In 2025, 114 US boys were named Gilberto, making it the 1,521st most common boys’ name of the year, down 88 places from #1,433 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 127 boys named Gilberto in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #383, reached in 1981. The most boys given the name in a single year was 559, in 1993. For comparison, it was #1,053 in 2015 and #566 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gilberto in 120 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1903 with 6 babies. In all, 28,700 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 5,084 babies named Gilberto.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,389 US boys were named Gilberto; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 180. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,983 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gilberto ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #685 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Gilbert (130,821 babies since 1880).