Given name & surname · also Middle English
Hilbert
“battle”
Hilbert is a masculine given name from Middle English, ultimately from Old English. It is used in English and Faroese.
Original Old EnglishHild
Meaning & origin
What it means
Hilbert goes back to Old English hild, meaning “battle.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Hilbert comes from Middle English, and ultimately from Old English.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Hilbert developed from Hild.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1900. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hilbert through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,020
- 2,020 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 83 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 6 in 1998. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 83 in 1922. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 626 as a first name in 2020; 5,170 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.
Hilbert’s family of names
In English usage, Hilbert has a later derivative in Hibberson. In English usage, Hilbert as a surname has a related form in HIBBARD. In English usage, Hilbert has a related form in HIBBARD.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 25
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Hildroot · Old English
- Childebertequivalent
- 希爾伯特Chinese
- Ibotsonderivative · English
- Ibitsonderivative · English
- Ibesonderivative · English
- Ibbisonderivative · English
- Ibbesonderivative · English
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- Hippersonderivative · English
- Hibbersonderivative · English
- Ibbottderivative · English
- Ibbittderivative · English
- Hibbottderivative · English
- Hibbitderivative · English
- Ibsonderivative · English
- Ibisonderivative · English
- Ibbotsonderivative · English
- Ibbitsonderivative · English
- Ibbetsonderivative · English
- Ibbersonderivative · English
- Ibbsderivative · English
- Ibbettderivative · English
- Hibbsderivative · English
- Hibbittderivative · English
- Hibbettderivative · English
People named Hilbert
- Hilbert van der DuimDutch speed skaterborn 1957
- Hilbert SchenckAmerican writer (1926-2013)
- Hilbert ShireyAmerican poker playerborn 2000
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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