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Norberto

#5,538 in 2025Boys' name

English equivalent of Norbert

Norberto has been given to 4,924 babies in the U.S. since 1921. In 2025 it ranked #5,538 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1981, with 103 recorded.

Babies named Norberto, 2025

1 in 195,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Norberto: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Norbert

Spanish

What Norberto means

Norberto is a English equivalent of Norbert.

Origin, language, and formation

Norberto is used in Cebuano, Italian and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Norbert.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Cebuano, Norberto is pronounced /noɾˈbeɾto/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,924 boys were recorded with the name Norberto between 1921 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 103 in 1981; its best national rank was #880 in 1981.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,892 in 2020 to #5,538 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,845 in 2015 to #5,538 in 2025.

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 Norberto?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,538
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Norberto 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 2025 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Norberto. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Norbertos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Norberto was born before 1984 — so the typical Norberto is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
17.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,515
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 17.4% of all recorded uses (855).

Is Norberto 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
−1,247
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+354
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,693
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.61×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.5%
Peak was 1981 (103)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#880
1981

Spellings of Norberto

Norberto is not the most common spelling — Roberto is, with 81.3% against Norberto's 3.6%.

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 Norberto is used

Across 1910–2025, Norberto was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 25,367 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 10,000
  2. 2California1 in 20,000
  3. 3New York1 in 20,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 25,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in 50,000
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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

Norberto around the world

Where Norberto 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
    1966–1987
    #2,619
    in 1987
  • South Australia
    1957–1957
    #427
    in 1957

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Norberto

People whose public names include Norberto, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Norberto in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Norberto. Linked forms have their own page here.

NorbertNorbertus

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Norberto by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,538
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 354
Best rank ever
#880
1981
Peak year
1981
103 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,924
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Norberto

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

EribertoAdalbertoNormandHumbertoNorwoodFilibertoNorrisHeribertoRigobertoGilbertoDagobertoNorvinNorbertNorvellNorvalNortonNorvilleNorielNorvelAlbertoNolbertoWilbertoRupertoNora

Names with a curve like Norberto

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

ArnoldoAdalbertoAnibalHomeroRoelClaudioHoracioDelvinPhilippeVidalCorwinDeric

Sibling names for Norberto

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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