Boy · #2641 in 2025

Herbert

Herbert: popularity and trends since 1880

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 boys born

Herbert per 100,000 boys born, by year. Peak: 1929. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Herbert has held steady: its share of boys born has barely moved over the last 10 years. It now stands at under 1% of its 1929 peak.

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.