Given name & surname · also Germanic
Humbert
“offspring, (bear) cub”
Humbert is a masculine given name from Old English, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in English, French, and German.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Humbert goes back to Proto-Germanic *hūnaz, meaning “offspring, (bear) cub.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Germanic.
How it developed
From Old English Hunbeorht, from Proto-Germanic *hūnaz (“offspring, (bear) cub”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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
Humbert through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 431
- 431 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1930
- 23 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 7 in 1966. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 23 in 1930. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 271 as a first name in 2020; 3,825 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.
Humbert’s family of names
Humbert shares a linguistic root with Umberto. In English usage, Humbert has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Humberto. Humbert has a related form in Humberto.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Humbert has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Germanic roots to each of them.
7 related names in 8 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Humbertovariant · Portuguese, Spanish
- Humbartovariant
- Humbartevariant
- Humbartvariant
- Humbyrtovariant
- Humbyrtevariant
- Humbyrtvariant
- Humburtovariant
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Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Humbert
- Humbert I of Savoy11th-century founder of the House of Savoy
- Humbert III of SavoyCount of Maurienne, Count of Savoy, Marquess in Italia and Blessed1136–1189
- Humbert of Silva CandidaFrench cardinal, writer and diplomat1000–1061
- Humbert II of ViennoisDauphin de Viennois1312–1355
- Humbert I of ViennoisFrench noble
- Humbert of RomansFrench Dominican friar1190–1277
- Humbert BalsanFrench film producer (1954-2005)
- Humbert V de BeaujeuAbt 1199 - May 12501198–1250
- Humbert Achamer-PifraderBohemian colonel (1900–1945)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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