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Herbert: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 49 in 2025. Its best rank was #25 in 1929.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #25 in 1929; #2,656 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Herbert in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,656 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1929, at #25.
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Herbert: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 49 boys in 2025. Peak: #25 in 1929 · most boys in one year: 8,065 (1928).
In 2025, 49 US boys were named Herbert, making it the 2,656th most common boys’ name of the year, down 200 places from #2,456 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 56 boys named Herbert in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #25, reached in 1929. The most boys given the name in a single year was 8,065, in 1928. For comparison, it was #1,858 in 2015 and #112 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Herbert in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 424 babies with the name. In all, 229,383 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 56,846 babies named Herbert.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 632 US boys were named Herbert; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 80. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,859 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Bert (34,242 babies since 1880) and Heriberto (10,282 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Herberth and Herberto are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Bert and Herb.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Herberth (177), Herberto (87).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 49 | #2,656 |
| 2024 | — | — | 56 | #2,456 |
| 2023 | — | — | 68 | #2,136 |
| 2022 | — | — | 65 | #2,224 |
| 2021 | — | — | 53 | #2,509 |
| 2020 | — | — | 59 | #2,304 |
| 2019 | — | — | 54 | #2,470 |
| 2018 | — | — | 71 | #2,037 |
| 2017 | — | — | 77 | #1,887 |
| 2016 | — | — | 80 | #1,867 |
| 2015 | — | — | 79 | #1,858 |
| 2014 | — | — | 75 | #1,931 |
| 2013 | — | — | 79 | #1,817 |
| 2012 | — | — | 72 | #1,969 |
| 2011 | — | — | 81 | #1,786 |
| 2010 | — | — | 99 | #1,591 |
| 2009 | — | — | 94 | #1,674 |
| 2008 | — | — | 110 | #1,484 |
| 2007 | — | — | 104 | #1,519 |
| 2006 | — | — | 113 | #1,405 |
| 2005 | — | — | 118 | #1,297 |
| 2004 | — | — | 109 | #1,346 |
| 2003 | — | — | 120 | #1,222 |
| 2002 | — | — | 161 | #978 |
| 2001 | — | — | 148 | #1,011 |
| 2000 | — | — | 157 | #966 |
| 1999 | — | — | 151 | #958 |
| 1998 | — | — | 193 | #793 |
| 1997 | — | — | 195 | #763 |
| 1996 | — | — | 204 | #744 |
| 1995 | — | — | 217 | #725 |
| 1994 | — | — | 235 | #674 |
| 1993 | — | — | 273 | #623 |
| 1992 | — | — | 307 | #586 |
| 1991 | — | — | 285 | #604 |
| 1990 | — | — | 349 | #529 |
| 1989 | — | — | 350 | #512 |
| 1988 | — | — | 400 | #450 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,953 | 349 | #475 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,569 | 382 | #439 |
| 1985 | — | — | 430 | #410 |
| 1984 | — | — | 437 | #391 |
| 1983 | — | — | 481 | #363 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,089 | 515 | #355 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,972 | 551 | #336 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,943 | 568 | #331 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,390 | 617 | #313 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,308 | 568 | #313 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,815 | 587 | #317 |
| 1976 | — | — | 632 | #295 |
| 1975 | — | — | 671 | #287 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,157 | 677 | #277 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,725 | 707 | #267 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,731 | 804 | #252 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,915 | 951 | #241 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,386 | 1,034 | #230 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,877 | 1,008 | #227 |
| 1968 | — | — | 1,056 | #217 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,743 | 1,152 | #201 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,628 | 1,159 | #203 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,815 | 1,380 | #183 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,459 | 1,392 | #201 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,129 | 1,504 | #196 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,212 | 1,580 | #190 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,860 | 1,688 | #181 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,778 | 1,782 | #176 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,819 | 1,844 | #169 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,080 | 2,087 | #157 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,347 | 2,278 | #151 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,597 | 2,397 | #137 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,764 | 2,504 | #129 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,392 | 2,591 | #128 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,555 | 2,617 | #125 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,721 | 2,656 | #115 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,735 | 2,703 | #112 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,091 | 2,621 | #112 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,066 | 2,731 | #107 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,041 | 2,872 | #103 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,685 | 2,856 | #104 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,509 | 2,818 | #97 |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,012 | 2,664 | #94 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,223 | 2,773 | #90 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,926 | 3,044 | #86 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,891 | 3,113 | #83 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,585 | 2,964 | #76 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,055 | 2,875 | #75 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,912 | 3,097 | #68 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,159 | 3,014 | #68 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,369 | 3,040 | #65 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,764 | 3,117 | #62 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,873 | 3,437 | #58 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,635 | 3,600 | #57 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,676 | 3,685 | #49 |
| 1932 | 31 | #1,331 | 4,368 | #44 |
| 1931 | 36 | #1,206 | 4,788 | #41 |
| 1930 | 47 | #1,078 | 5,675 | #35 |
| 1929 | 48 | #1,056 | 7,881 | #25 |
| 1928 | 48 | #1,090 | 8,065 | #25 |
| 1927 | 39 | #1,266 | 5,017 | #42 |
| 1926 | 41 | #1,204 | 4,939 | #44 |
| 1925 | 32 | #1,452 | 4,924 | #42 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,626 | 5,121 | #41 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,975 | 5,071 | #40 |
| 1922 | 19 | #2,056 | 5,047 | #40 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,949 | 5,217 | #42 |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,035 | 5,249 | #41 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,821 | 4,960 | #40 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,912 | 5,128 | #40 |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,677 | 4,745 | #40 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,070 | 4,463 | #40 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,835 | 4,341 | #40 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,852 | 3,253 | #42 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,088 | 2,723 | #39 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,659 | 2,236 | #39 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,587 | 1,125 | #41 |
| 1910 | — | — | 886 | #41 |
| 1909 | — | — | 831 | #37 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,959 | 759 | #36 |
| 1907 | — | — | 710 | #39 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,068 | 689 | #37 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,601 | 681 | #37 |
| 1904 | — | — | 680 | #37 |
| 1903 | — | — | 668 | #34 |
| 1902 | — | — | 615 | #36 |
| 1901 | — | — | 573 | #35 |
| 1900 | — | — | 751 | #36 |
| 1899 | — | — | 590 | #33 |
| 1898 | — | — | 716 | #34 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,650 | 565 | #35 |
| 1896 | — | — | 635 | #34 |
| 1895 | — | — | 569 | #36 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,575 | 585 | #36 |
| 1893 | — | — | 519 | #41 |
| 1892 | — | — | 513 | #43 |
| 1891 | — | — | 501 | #38 |
| 1890 | — | — | 467 | #42 |
| 1889 | — | — | 472 | #42 |
| 1888 | — | — | 485 | #43 |
| 1887 | — | — | 445 | #41 |
| 1886 | — | — | 400 | #46 |
| 1885 | — | — | 388 | #45 |
| 1884 | — | — | 421 | #46 |
| 1883 | — | — | 422 | #41 |
| 1882 | — | — | 431 | #40 |
| 1881 | — | — | 369 | #40 |
| 1880 | — | — | 424 | #38 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).