Herbie
Herbie was last recorded in 2007, when 7 babies were given it; 1,094 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Herbie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Herbie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Herbie is “a diminutive of the male given name Herbert.”
From Herb + -ie.
/ˈ(h)ɝ.bi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Herbie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,157, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 1959, the peak
Herbie peaked in 1959, when 45 boys were given it, #1,162 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 7 | #10,157 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,373 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,346 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,399 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,556 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,064 | 3.2 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,273 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,055 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,291 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,666 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 8 | #4,575 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,168 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,791 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,186 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 18 | #2,394 | 11.5 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,310 | 11.4 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,161 | 12.2 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,470 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 13 | #2,735 | 7.4 |
| 1970 | 11 | #2,964 | 5.9 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,470 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 19 | #1,862 | 10.9 |
| 1967 | 17 | #1,937 | 9.7 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,846 | 10.1 |
| 1965 | 22 | #1,688 | 11.8 |
| 1964 | 28 | #1,497 | 14.1 |
| 1963 | 28 | #1,495 | 13.8 |
| 1962 | 31 | #1,408 | 15.0 |
| 1961 | 43 | #1,214 | 20.2 |
| 1960 | 42 | #1,218 | 19.7 |
| 1959 | 45 | #1,162 | 21.1 |
| 1958 | 30 | #1,430 | 14.1 |
| 1957 | 27 | #1,525 | 12.5 |
| 1956 | 19 | #1,856 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 19 | #1,814 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 16 | #1,995 | 7.8 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,139 | 7.1 |
| 1952 | 16 | #1,968 | 8.2 |
| 1951 | 20 | #1,697 | 10.6 |
| 1950 | 17 | #1,843 | 9.5 |
| 1949 | 23 | #1,560 | 13.0 |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,506 | 13.7 |
| 1947 | 23 | #1,572 | 12.6 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,079 | 8.0 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,050 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 32 | #1,178 | 23.5 |
| 1943 | 19 | #1,663 | 13.3 |
| 1942 | 18 | #1,702 | 13.0 |
| 1941 | 17 | #1,717 | 13.8 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,655 | 15.5 |
| 1939 | 31 | #1,178 | 28.0 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,581 | 17.1 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,600 | 17.8 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,116 | 11.6 |
| 1935 | 14 | #1,976 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 16 | #1,806 | 15.5 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,846 | 8.1 |
| 1932 | 16 | #1,879 | 15.3 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,255 | 11.5 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,139 | 7.3 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,098 | 7.4 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,741 | 9.0 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,010 | 8.0 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,358 | 7.1 |
| 1923 | 10 | #2,842 | 9.1 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,626 | 4.5 |
| 1919 | 9 | #2,974 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,015 | 9.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Herbie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Herbie has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Herbie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Herbie, and how old are they?
An estimated 642 Americans named Herbie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (59% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 55 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 714 people named Herbie (36 women and girls, 678 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 739 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,743 babies since 1880, Herbie is the most given (63% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Herbie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Herbie and names like it
- Compare Herbie and HerbyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sHerbie peaked in 1959.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Herbie since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Herbie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Herbie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.