Given name & surname
Filiberto
Filiberto is a surname from Italian. It is used in English and Italian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Germanic.
How it developed
Its Germanic formation brings together fil (“much”) and berht (“bright, famous”).
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Filiberto through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,483
- 2,483 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1992
- 61 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,470 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −19%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,470 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 18.5% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 61 in 1992. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 6,209 as a first name in 2020; 213 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Filiberto’s family of names
In Italian usage, Filiberto has a conventional equivalent in the French form Philibert.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Filiberto
- Filiberto RiveraPuerto Rican basketball player (born 1982)
- Filiberto ZarattiItalian politicianborn 1956
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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