Given name & surname
Hebert
Hebert is a surname from French. It is used in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Original FrenchHébert
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1894. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hebert through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,066
- 1,066 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1928
- 43 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 43 in 1928. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 948 as a first name in 2020; 39,189 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.
Hebert’s family of names
In German usage, Hebert as a surname has a related form in Herbert. In English usage, Hebert as a surname was borrowed from the French form Hébert.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hebert
- HebertBrazilian association football playerborn 1991
- Hebert ConceiçãoBrazilian boxerborn 1998
- Hebert RevetriaUruguayan footballerborn 1955
- Hebert AbimoradUruguayan writerborn 1946
- Hebert Alférezfootball playerborn 1988
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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