In 2025, 34 US boys were named Hubert, making it the 3,400th most common boys’ name of the year, up 152 places from #3,552 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 32 boys named Hubert in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #106, reached in 1910. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,551, in 1924. For comparison, it was #3,106 in 2015 and #269 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hubert in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 59 babies with the name. In all, 57,761 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 14,773 babies named Hubert.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 318 US boys were named Hubert; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,238 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Bert (34,242 babies since 1880), Hobert (5,724 babies since 1880) and Hobart (3,806 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Hubbert, Huebert and Huberto are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Bert, Hub and Hugh.