Given name & surname
Holbert
“favourable, gracious, loyal”·“bright”
Holbert is a surname from Proto-Germanic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Holbert is built from elements meaning “favourable, gracious, loyal” and “bright”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Holbert through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 143
- 143 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 10 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 1949. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 6,290 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.
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