Wilbert
Wilbert is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 19 births. Its best rank was 160th, in 1920.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 190.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1922902 births
- Best rank
- #160in 1920
- Since 1880
- 39,995people given the name
The story in the numbers
39,995 boys have been named Wilbert in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 902 births.
The name has all but left use: 19 births in 2024, against 902 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1938, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 110 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Wilbert | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 256 | |
| 1890s | 359 | |
| 1900s | 722 | |
| 1910s | 5,275 | |
| 1920s | 8,113 | |
| 1930s | 6,164 | |
| 1940s | 5,809 | |
| 1950s | 5,147 | |
| 1960s | 3,174 | |
| 1970s | 1,811 | |
| 1980s | 1,280 | |
| 1990s | 824 | |
| 2000s | 610 | |
| 2010s | 345 | |
| 2020s | 106 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Wilbert was the 167th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Wilbert
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Wiltonpeak 1924
- Bernardpeak 1924
- Arnoldpeak 1924
- Vernonpeak 1920
- Leonardpeak 1921
- Garlandpeak 1922
- Merlepeak 1925
- Bufordpeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.