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Engelbert

Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Engelbert has been given to 150 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1970, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Engelbert, 1995

1 in 610,000

Engelbert 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Engelbert: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Old French and German

What Engelbert means

Engelbert has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: “an angel”.

Origin, language, and formation

Engelbert is used in English, Dutch and German. Its origins include Old French and German.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Engelbert is pronounced /ˈɛ.ŋəlˌbɛrt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 150 boys were recorded with the name Engelbert between 1913 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1970; its best national rank was #2,427 in 1970.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Engelbert?

Engelbert had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1995
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,660,254 births
Among boys only
1 in 317,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1995
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,850 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Engelbert 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 1995 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 422,850 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Engelbert. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Engelberts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Engelbert was born before 1972 — so the typical Engelbert is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
53.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
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1970s — 53.3% of all recorded uses (80).

Is Engelbert 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 1970 (15)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,427
1970

Where Engelbert is used

Across 1910–2025, Engelbert was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,809,208 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Engelbert has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Engelbert around the world

Where Engelbert 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
    1900–1965
    #1,541
    in 1965
  • South Australia
    1972–1973
    #454
    in 1973

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Engelbert 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
#2,427
1970
Peak year
1970
15 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
150
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Engelbert

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

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Sibling names for Engelbert

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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