Heriberto

Where Heriberto comes from

Heriberto 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. 1916
    First appearance
    #3,177 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1926
    Heriberto Herrera born
    Paraguayan-Spanish footballer
  3. 1955
    Heriberto Bodeant born
    Roman Catholic bishop of Melo
  4. 1980
    Peak, #636
    187 babies named Heriberto — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,863.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Heriberto Herrera · Paraguayan-Spanish footballer, 1926–1996
  • Heriberto Bodeant · Roman Catholic bishop of Melo, born 1955
  • Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano · Mexican drug lord, 1974–2012
  • Heriberto Hermes · American priest, 1933–2018
  • Heriberto Jara Corona · Mexican politician, 1879–1968

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.