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Umberto

Boys' name

Offspring, (bear) cub + bright

Umberto has been given to 989 babies in the U.S. since 1911. 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 1915, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Umberto, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Umberto: meaning, origin, and history

Offspring, (bear) cub + bright

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Umberto means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Umberto is used in Italian.

Umberto comes through Proto-Germanic *hūnaz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Humbert.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Umberto is pronounced /umˈbɛr.to/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 989 boys were recorded with the name Umberto between 1911 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,170 in 1912.

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.

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How common is Umberto?

Umberto had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Umberto 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Umberto. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Umbertos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Umberto was born before 1958 — so the typical Umberto is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
17.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
542
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1920s — 17.1% of all recorded uses (169).

Is Umberto 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 1915 (30)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,170
1912

Spellings of Umberto

Umberto is not the most common spelling — Roberto is, with 58.2% against Umberto's 0.51%.

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 Umberto is used

Across 1910–2025, Umberto was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 223,093 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 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. Umberto has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Umberto around the world

Where Umberto 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
    2002–2002
    #3,225
    in 2002
  • France
    1908–2019
    #6,084
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1995–1995
    #1,910
    in 1995
  • South Australia
    1952–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Umberto 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
#1,170
1912
Peak year
1915
30 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
989
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Umberto

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

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Sibling names for Umberto

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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