Hebert

39,189 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hebert in the 2020 census, making it the 870th most common in the country. That is about one person in 7,627.

By the numbers

People: 39,189
Rank: 870th
How common: 1 in 7,627
Per 100,000: 13.1

Where the name comes from

Origin French

Borrowed from French Hébert.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hebert described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.5%
Black, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Hebert

Jacques Hébert (1757–1794)French journalist and politician
Anne Hébert (1916–2000)Canadian author and poet
Georges Hébert (1875–1957)French physical educator
Ernest Hébert (1817–1908)French painter
Ben Hebert (born 1983)Canadian curler

People named Hebert with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Also a first name

Hebert has been given to 1,066 American babies as a first name since 1894, peaking in 1928. 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.