Gilbert
At the 2020 census, 108,832 Americans bore the surname Gilbert — 284th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,746.
By the numbers
- People
- 108,832
- Rank
- 284th
- How common
- 1 in 2,746
- Per 100,000
- 36.4
Where the name comes from
From Old French Gislebert, from Proto-Germanic *Gīslaberhtaz.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Gilbert described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Gilbert
- William Gilbert (1544–1603)English physician, physicist and natural philosopher
- Walter Gilbert (born 1932)American biochemist
- Elizabeth Gilbert (born 1969)American writer
- Philippe Gilbert (born 1982)Belgian cyclist
- W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911)English dramatist, poet and illustrator
- Sara Gilbert (born 1975)American actress
- Melissa Gilbert (born 1964)American actress
- John Gilbert (1899–1936)American actor and film director
People named Gilbert with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Gilbert
Also a first name
Gilbert has been given to 130,821 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1930. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.