Hubert

Where Hubert comes from

From Old French Hubert, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hugiz (“mind”) + *berhtaz (“bright, famous”). See Saint Hubert.
— Wiktionary's entry for Hubert
  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #207 among boys — 59 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1910
    Peak, #105
    289 babies named Hubert — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1911
    Hubert Humphrey born
    vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969
  4. 1927
    Hubert de Givenchy born
    French fashion designer
  5. 1978
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #707.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, borne by an 8th-century bishop of Liège, patron saint of hunters.
Namesakes
  • Hubert Humphrey · vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969, 1911–1978
  • Hubert de Givenchy · French fashion designer, 1927–2018
  • Hubert Maga · first president of Benin, 1916–2000
  • Hubert Van Innis · Belgian archer, 1866–1961
  • Hubert Reeves · Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science, 1932–2023

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.