Hubert
Hubert is a boy's name that peaked in 1924, when it was the 115th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 3,379th. About 15,000 Huberts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 67.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Hubert boys named Hubert
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 57,761
- Estimated living today
- 15,000
- Median age today
- 67
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 115th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,379th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 189 / 57,572
How old the living Huberts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 57,761 babies given the name since 1880, about 15,000 are alive — 26 in every hundred. Roughly 660 of them are children and 8,400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1958 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
From Old French Hubert, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hugiz (“mind”) + *berhtaz (“bright, famous”). See Saint Hubert.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Huberts
- Hubert Humphrey (1911–1978)vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969
- Hubert de Givenchy (1927–2018)French fashion designer
- Hubert Maga (1916–2002)first president of Benin
- Hubert Van Innis (1866–1961)Belgian archer
- Hubert Minnis (born 1954)Bahamian physician and politician
- Hubert Reeves (1932–2023)Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science
- Hubert Robert (1733–1808)French painter
- Hubert Parry (1848–1918)British composer, teacher and historian
People named Hubert with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hubert is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hubert is most concentrated in Mississippi (3.4×), North Carolina (3.2×), Kentucky (3.2×), Alabama (3.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular boys’ names the year Hubert peaked:
Hubert elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Hubert | 65,765 | 62nd |
| Poland boys | Hubert | 54,316 birth registrations | 31st |
| England and Wales boys | Hubert | 960 | 490th |
| Ireland boys | Hubert | 477 | 108th |
| Norway boys | Hubert | 278 | 322nd |
| Belgium boys | Hubert | 202 | 700th |
| France girls | Hubert | 190 | 640th |
| Scotland boys | Hubert | 75 | 401st |
| Switzerland boys | Hubert | 39 | 869th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Hubert | 15 | 329th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Hubert: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Hubert | 29 | 0.002% | 640th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Hubert | 10 | 0.002% | 642nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Hubert: rank by region
In 2023, Hubert was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Hubert | 879 | 5 |
In 2025, Hubert was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Hubert | 36 | 71 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Hubert | 29 | 56 |
| Lubelskie | Hubert | 31 | 41 |
| Lubuskie | Hubert | 34 | 23 |
| Łódzkie | Hubert | 41 | 42 |
| Małopolskie | Hubert | 29 | 149 |
| Mazowieckie | Hubert | 54 | 78 |
| Opolskie | Hubert | 49 | 12 |
| Podkarpackie | Hubert | 28 | 62 |
| Podlaskie | Hubert | 35 | 26 |
| Pomorskie | Hubert | 21 | 114 |
| Śląskie | Hubert | 32 | 102 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Hubert | 69 | 6 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Hubert | 31 | 33 |
| Wielkopolskie | Hubert | 46 | 59 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Hubert | 36 | 31 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Hubert by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 546th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Hubert among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Hubert | 3,065 | 14,348 |
| the Netherlands girls | Hubert | — | 320 |
| Finland boys | Hubert | 37 | 99 |
Among boys in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 14,348 who carry it, 3,065 go by it.
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Hubert against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.