first name
WILBERT
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 14,768 people named Wilbert, 53.1% reported their origin as Black, 24.5% as White and 15.9% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Wilbert peaked in 1922, when 902 babies got the name.
At least 40,193 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Wilbert by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1920s, when it ranked #406. The largest share of babies named Wilbert, 31.5%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Wilbert is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Wilbert has been most common in Louisiana (6.6×), North Carolina (3.3×), and North Dakota (2.7×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.07×).
35,011 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Wilbert
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Wilbert, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Wilbert ranks #11,240 of 156,621, with 2,689 people. See Wilbert as a last name
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