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The name Herbert is of Germanic origin, and means illustrious by reason of an army. The table below indicates the number of times the name Herbert has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Herbert**
Use of the Name Herbert for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
225,961	39,204	7,182	1,276	317	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Herbert has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Herbert last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 2002, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Herbert**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	38	424
1881	40	369
1882	40	431
1883	41	422
1884	46	421
1885	45	388
1886	46	400
1887	41	445
1888	43	485
1889	42	472
1890	42	467
1891	38	501
1892	43	513
1893	41	519
1894	36	585
1895	36	569
1896	34	635
1897	35	565
1898	34	716
1899	33	590
1900	36	752
1901	35	574
1902	36	615
1903	34	667
1904	37	681
1905	37	681
1906	37	689
1907	39	710
1908	36	758
1909	37	830
1910	39	887
1911	41	1,124
1912	39	2,234
1913	39	2,717
1914	42	3,246
1915	40	4,341
1916	40	4,473
1917	40	4,731
1918	40	5,137
1919	40	4,965
1920	41	5,259
1921	42	5,202
1922	40	5,047
1923	40	5,088
1924	41	5,116
1925	42	4,916
1926	44	4,940
1927	42	5,031
1928	25	8,031
1929	25	7,844
1930	35	5,669
1931	41	4,775
1932	44	4,362
1933	49	3,677
1934	57	3,592
1935	58	3,435
1936	62	3,114
1937	65	3,035
1938	68	3,011
1939	68	3,096
1940	75	2,873
1941	76	2,956
1942	83	3,110
1943	86	3,030
1944	90	2,776
1945	94	2,641
1946	97	2,815
1947	104	2,845
1948	103	2,859
1949	108	2,717
1950	112	2,627
1951	112	2,681
1952	115	2,655
1953	125	2,614
1954	128	2,589
1955	129	2,515
1956	138	2,380
1957	151	2,271
1958	158	2,082
1959	169	1,839
1960	176	1,782
1961	182	1,685
1962	190	1,579
1963	197	1,503
1964	201	1,393
1965	183	1,378
1966	203	1,160
1967	201	1,148
1968	217	1,058
1969	227	1,009
1970	229	1,031
1971	241	947
1972	251	807
1973	267	708
1974	277	674
1975	286	671
1976	295	632
1977	318	586
1978	313	567
1979	313	617
1980	331	567
1981	337	548
1982	354	516
1983	363	482
1984	391	435
1985	409	430
1986	440	381
1987	474	350
1988	452	399
1989	512	350
1990	531	348
1991	603	285
1992	588	305
1993	623	275
1994	673	235
1995	724	217
1996	745	204
1997	761	195
1998	796	192
1999	955	151
2000	963	156
2001
2002	973	161
Totals:		225,961		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Herbert as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Herbert appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 122 times during the last 125 years.

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