Gilberto

Where Gilberto comes from

Gilberto hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1903
    First appearance
    #1,009 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1942
    Gilberto Gil born
    Brazilian recording artist, singer, guitarist, songwriter and politician
  3. 1976
    Gilberto Silva born
    Brazilian footballer
  4. 1981
    Peak, #383
    446 babies named Gilberto — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2013
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #943.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Gilberto Silva · Brazilian footballer, born 1976
  • Gilberto Gil · Brazilian recording artist, singer, guitarist, songwriter and politician, born 1942
  • Gilberto Ribeiro Gonçalves · Brazilian association football player, born 1980
  • Gilberto Carlos Nascimento · Brazilian association football player, born 1966
  • Gilberto da Silva Melo · Brazilian association football player, born 1976

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.