Hilbert

At the 2020 census, 5,170 Americans bore the surname Hilbert — 6,323rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 57,800.

By the numbers

People: 5,170
Rank: 6,323rd
How common: 1 in 57,800
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From a Middle English given name of Proto-Germanic origin, from Old English hild (“battle”) + beorht (“bright”) (Proto-Germanic *Hildiberhtaz).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hilbert described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.9%
Black, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Hilbert

David Hilbert (1862–1943)German mathematician
Roberto Hilbert (born 1984)German footballer
Jonathan Hilbert (born 1995)German racewalker
Andy Hilbert (born 1981)American ice hockey player

People named Hilbert with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Hilbert

Also a first name

Hilbert has been given to 2,020 American babies as a first name since 1900, peaking in 1922. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.