Norbert
Norbert is a boy's name that peaked in 1924, when it was the 212th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 5,300 Norberts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 68.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Norbert boys named Norbert
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 20,385
- Estimated living today
- 5,300
- Median age today
- 68
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 212th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1885
- Girls / boys
- 6 / 20,379
How old the living Norberts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 20,385 babies given the name since 1885, about 5,300 are alive — 26 in every hundred. Roughly 170 of them are children and 3,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1957 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 High German nord (“north”) + beraht (“bright”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Norberts
- Norbert Elias (1897–1990)German sociologist
- Norbert Hofer (born 1971)Austrian politician
- Norbert of Xanten (1080–1134)12th‑century German bishop and founder of the Premonstratensians, Catholic saint, reformer of clergy and defender of the Eucharist
- Norbert Gyömbér (born 1992)Slovak association football player
- Norbert Ratsirahonana (born 1938)Malagasy politician
- Norbert Eder (1955–2019)German footballer
- Norbert Rózsa (born 1972)Hungarian swimmer
- Norbert Röttgen (born 1965)German politician (CDU)
People named Norbert with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Norbert is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Norbert is most concentrated in Wisconsin (9.1×), Minnesota (3.3×), South Dakota (2.8×), Illinois (2.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular boys’ names the year Norbert peaked:
Norbert elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Norbert | 26,725 | 75th |
| Poland boys | Norbert | 11,326 birth registrations | 46th |
| England and Wales boys | Norbert | 199 | 1,265th |
| Norway boys | Norbert | 191 | 238th |
| France girls | Norbert | 95 | 878th |
| Ireland boys | Norbert | 52 | 472nd |
| Scotland boys | Norbert | 4 | 544th |
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.
Norbert: rank by region
In 2025, Norbert was given 2 times or more in 14 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Norbert | 188 | 4 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Norbert | 164 | 2 |
| Lubelskie | Norbert | 125 | 3 |
| Łódzkie | Norbert | 128 | 5 |
| Małopolskie | Norbert | 135 | 8 |
| Mazowieckie | Norbert | 164 | 10 |
| Podkarpackie | Norbert | 123 | 4 |
| Podlaskie | Norbert | 127 | 2 |
| Pomorskie | Norbert | 161 | 4 |
| Śląskie | Norbert | 155 | 6 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Norbert | 100 | 2 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Norbert | 118 | 3 |
| Wielkopolskie | Norbert | 161 | 6 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Norbert | 138 | 3 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – 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.
Norbert 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Norbert | 16 | 33 |
A count of people on a register – 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.
Where Norbert lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 432 men called Norbert were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Norbert | 36 | 0.086 | 839 |
| Lleida | Norbert | 19 | 0.081 | 930 |
| Tarragona | Norbert | 29 | 0.066 | 1,017 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Norbert | 32 | 0.060 | 1,375 |
| Balears, Illes | Norbert | 27 | 0.043 | 1,327 |
| Barcelona | Norbert | 108 | 0.037 | 1,410 |
Listed in 12 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 40 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Norbert 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.