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Colbert

Boys' name

Cool, cold; calm + bright

Colbert has been given to 839 babies in the U.S. since 1886. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1931, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Colbert, 2012

1 in 610,000

Colbert over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Colbert: meaning, origin, and history

Cool, cold; calm + bright

surname transfer

What Colbert means

Colbert means “cool, cold; calm + bright”, associated with kōlaz and berhtaz.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From a Germanic personal name, composed of Proto-Germanic *kōlaz (“cool, cold; calm”) and *berhtaz (“bright”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Colbert (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Colbert is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Colbert comes through Proto-Germanic *kōlaz.

Colbert is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Colbert is pronounced /ˈkoʊlbɚt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 839 boys were recorded with the name Colbert between 1886 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1931; its best national rank was #995 in 1886.

How common is Colbert?

Colbert had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,657,590 births
Among boys only
1 in 316,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,543 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Colbert sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 422,543 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Colbert. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Colberts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Colbert was born before 1948 — so the typical Colbert is around 77 today.

Median birth year
1948
About 77 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
14.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
410
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1930s — 14.4% of all recorded uses (121).

Is Colbert rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1931 (19)
Years since peak
94
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#995
1886

Spellings of Colbert

Colbert is not the most common spelling — Robert is, with 86.0% against Colbert's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Colbert is used

Across 1910–2025, Colbert was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,491,651 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Colbert has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Colbert around the world

Where Colbert ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1900–1967
    #1,778
    in 1967

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Colbert by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#995
1886
Peak year
1931
19 that year
First recorded
1886
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
839
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Colbert

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Colbert

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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