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Philbert

Boys' name

Variant of Philibert

Philbert has been given to 797 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1955, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Philbert, 2015

1 in 740,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Philbert: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Philibert

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Philbert means

Philbert is a variant of Philibert.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Philbert is used in French (Rare).

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Philibert.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 797 boys were recorded with the name Philbert between 1913 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1955; its best national rank was #1,635 in 1955.

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 Philbert?

Philbert had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 383,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Philbert 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Philbert. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Philberts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Philbert was born before 1960 — so the typical Philbert is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
21.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
581
People you could plausibly meet
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1950s — 21.5% of all recorded uses (171).

Is Philbert 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1955 (23)
Years since peak
70
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,635
1955

Spellings of Philbert

Philbert is not the most common spelling — Gilbert is, with 74.3% against Philbert's 0.46%.

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 Philbert is used

Across 1910–2025, Philbert was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 278,333 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 25,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 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. Philbert has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Philbert around the world

Where Philbert 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.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2009
    #4,527
    in 2009
  • France
    1900–1967
    #1,727
    in 1967

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Philbert 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
#1,635
1955
Peak year
1955
23 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
797
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Philbert

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

PhilemonPhinehasPhilippPhilippePhillipePhinneasPhillipsPhineasPhilmoreThelbertCalvertPhiloPhilanderPhilopaterTolbertTalbertPhillippeColbertPhilibertHurbertLambertJohnrobertRobbertAdelbert

Sibling names for Philbert

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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