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Gilberte

Girls' name

Pledge + bright, famous, through Gilbert

Gilberte has been given to 196 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1921, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Gilberte, 1934

1 in 346,000

Gilberte over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gilberte: meaning, origin, and history

Pledge + bright, famous, through Gilbert

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gilberte means

Gilberte belongs to the name family reached through Gilberte → Gilbert. Its meaning is “pledge + bright, famous”.

Origin, language, and formation

Gilberte is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gilbert.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Gilberte is pronounced /ʒil.bɛʁt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 196 girls were recorded with the name Gilberte between 1912 and 1934. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1921; its best national rank was #2,327 in 1921.

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 Gilberte?

Gilberte had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1934, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1934
1 in 346,000
6 of 2,076,780 births
Among girls only
1 in 174,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1934
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
239,920 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gilberte sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1934 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 239,920 children born in 1934 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gilberte. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gilbertes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gilberte was born before 1924 — so the typical Gilberte is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
52.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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Choose a decade

1920s — 52.0% of all recorded uses (102).

Is Gilberte 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 1921 (16)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,327
1921

Spellings of Gilberte

Gilberte is not the most common spelling — Gilbert is, with 47.1% against Gilberte's 13.7%.

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 Gilberte is used

Across 1910–2025, Gilberte was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 123,055 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 20,000
  2. 2New Hampshire1 in 100,000
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Gilberte has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gilberte around the world

Where Gilberte 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
    1900–1995
    #4,155
    in 1995

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

Gilberte by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,327
1921
Peak year
1921
16 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1934
All-time count
196
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gilberte

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

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Sibling names for Gilberte

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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