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Hobert

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Hobert has been given to 5,724 babies in the U.S. since 1893. 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 1922, with 185 recorded.

Babies named Hobert, 2001

1 in 748,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hobert: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hobert means

Hobert is a given name.

The naming story behind Hobert

Wikidata records Hobert as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q125109578, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,724 boys were recorded with the name Hobert between 1893 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 185 in 1922; its best national rank was #216 in 1897.

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 Hobert?

Hobert had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 748,000
5 of 3,742,181 births
Among boys only
1 in 388,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,778 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hobert 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 2001 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 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hobert. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hoberts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hobert was born before 1930 — so the typical Hobert is around 95 today.

Median birth year
1930
About 95 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
26.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,190
People you could plausibly meet
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1920s — 26.6% of all recorded uses (1,523).

Is Hobert 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 1922 (185)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#216
1897

Spellings of Hobert

Hobert is not the most common spelling — Robert is, with 82.0% against Hobert'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 Hobert is used

Across 1910–2025, Hobert was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 2,703 boys, against 1 in 21,899 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

037 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 2,703
  2. 2West Virginia1 in 2,941
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 6,250
  4. 4Virginia1 in 14,286
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 16,667
  6. 6Alabama1 in 20,000
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 33,333
  8. 8Missouri1 in 50,000

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. Hobert has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hobert 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
#216
1897
Peak year
1922
185 that year
First recorded
1893
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
5,724
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hobert

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

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Names with a curve like Hobert

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Hobert, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Hobert

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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