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Hebert vs Heberto

American parents have registered 1,066 Heberts since 1880, against 142 Hebertos. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hebert against Heberto, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hebert Heberto

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 97 years in which either name was published, Hebert for 91 years and Heberto for 6 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Hebert Heberto
Total US births 1,066142
Most in one year 438
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 410100
Median age today 5742
Peak year 19281932
Best rank 1,057th boys2,849th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18941926
Girls / boys 0 / 1,0660 / 142

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Heberts alive today are over 57; half the Hebertos are over 42. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Hebert and Heberto.