Name Awesome

Halbert

Boys' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Halbert has been given to 1,137 babies in the U.S. since 1881. 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 1923, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Halbert, 1995

1 in 732,000

Halbert over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Halbert: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Halbert means

Halbert is a given name.

The naming story behind Halbert

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Halbert in its glossary. The entry labels it masculine and points to printed page(s) 349.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Scot. Teu. bright stone”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Halbert, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,137 boys were recorded with the name Halbert between 1881 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 29 in 1923; its best national rank was #928 in 1881.

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.

How common is Halbert?

Halbert 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 732,000
5 of 3,660,254 births
Among boys only
1 in 381,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1995
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,420 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Halbert 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 507,420 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Halbert. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Halberts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Halbert was born before 1942 — so the typical Halbert is around 83 today.

Median birth year
1942
About 83 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
467
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 18.8% of all recorded uses (214).

Is Halbert 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 1923 (29)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#928
1881

Spellings of Halbert

Halbert is not the most common spelling — Albert is, with 44.3% against Halbert's 0.10%.

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 Halbert is used

Across 1910–2025, Halbert was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 615,085 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in —
  2. 2Mississippi1 in —
  3. 3North Carolina1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Halbert has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Halbert 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
#928
1881
Peak year
1923
29 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
1,137
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Halbert

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

HalstonHalenCalvertHallieHaldenHaleHaleemHaloLambertHallHaltonColbertTalbertTolbertHalseyHalimHaleyHurbertHilbertRobbertHalstenHebertEgbertHalford

Sibling names for Halbert

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

Explore around Halbert

Top names of 1923, Halbert's peak yearThe 1920s in fullOther names that peaked in 1881Boys' names starting with H