Guilbert

Boys' name

English equivalent of Gilbert

Guilbert has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1918. 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 1918, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Guilbert, 1955

1 in 803,000

Guilbert over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Guilbert: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Gilbert

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Guilbert means

Guilbert is a English equivalent of Gilbert.

Origin, language, and formation

Guilbert is used in Norman.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gilbert.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Guilbert between 1918 and 1955. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1918; its best national rank was #3,906 in 1918.

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.

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How common is Guilbert?

Guilbert had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1955, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1955: 1 in 803,000; 5 of 4,014,099 births
Among boys only: 1 in 412,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1955: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 556,473 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Guilbert 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 1955 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 556,473 children born in 1955 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Guilbert. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Guilberts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Guilbert was born before 1927 — so the typical Guilbert is around 98 today.

Median birth year: 1927; About 98 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 31.3%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Guilbert 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1918 (6)
Years since peak: 107; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #3,906; 1918

Spellings of Guilbert

Guilbert is not the most common spelling — Gilbert is, with 64.5% against Guilbert's <0.01%.

Gilbert64.5%130,148
Wilbert19.8%40,015
Gilberto14.2%28,642
Hilbert1.0%2,020
Philbert0.40%797
Guilbert<0.01%16

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.

Guilbert around the world

Where Guilbert 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
1903–1963
#1,745
in 1963

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

Guilbert 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: #3,906; 1918
Peak year: 1918; 6 that year
First recorded: 1918
Last recorded: 1955
All-time count: 16
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Guilbert

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

Guiseppi Guiliano Guinness Guistino Guilian Willbert Guilmar Guilio Walbert Robeert Dilbert Shelbert Larobert Lilbert Selbert Ruppert Huebert Umbert Welbert Rpbert Guile Cobert Raybert Guilherme

Sibling names for Guilbert

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

For a sister

Winnifred Johnie Ray Lida Maybelle Floy Mathilda Verda

For a brother

Valentine Ellsworth Orval Buster Sol Omer Ferdinand Regis

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