Given name & surname
Tolbert
“born to the nobility”
Tolbert is a variant of Talbert. One English interpretation is “born to the nobility.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Tolbert is a variant of Talbert. One English interpretation is “born to the nobility.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Tolbert is a variant of Talbert. An origin associated with Talbert is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1881. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tolbert through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 792
- 792 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 25 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 1987. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 25 in 1922. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 323 as a first name in 2020; 23,449 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.
Tolbert’s family of names
Tolbert has a related form in Talbert.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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