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Humbert

Boys' name

Offspring, (bear) cub + bright

Humbert has been given to 431 babies in the U.S. since 1900. 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 1930, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Humbert, 1966

1 in 497,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Humbert: meaning, origin, and history

Offspring, (bear) cub + bright

Germanic languages

What Humbert means

Humbert means “offspring, (bear) cub + bright”, associated with hūnaz and berhtaz.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Old English Hunbeorht, from Proto-Germanic *hūnaz (“offspring, (bear) cub”) + *berhtaz (“bright”). Name of a Flemish saint, and of Italian royalty.

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Origin, language, and formation

Humbert is used in English, French and German. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Humbert comes through Old English Hunbeorht and Proto-Germanic *hūnaz.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Humbert is pronounced /ˈhʌm.bəɹt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 431 boys were recorded with the name Humbert between 1900 and 1966. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1930; its best national rank was #1,103 in 1900.

How common is Humbert?

Humbert had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1966, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1966
1 in 497,000
7 of 3,475,564 births
Among boys only
1 in 255,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1966
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
344,155 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Humbert 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 1966 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 344,155 children born in 1966 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Humbert. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Humberts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Humbert was born before 1926 — so the typical Humbert is around 99 today.

Median birth year
1926
About 99 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
36.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
34
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1920s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (156).

Is Humbert 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 1930 (23)
Years since peak
95
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,103
1900

Spellings of Humbert

Humbert is not the most common spelling — Herbert is, with 71.7% against Humbert's 0.14%.

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 Humbert is used

Across 1910–2025, Humbert was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 371,386 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 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. Humbert has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Humbert around the world

Where Humbert 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
    1900–2005
    #5,198
    in 2005

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

Humbert 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
#1,103
1900
Peak year
1930
23 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
1966
All-time count
431
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Humbert

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

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Sibling names for Humbert

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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