Hobert
Hobert was last recorded in 2001, when 5 babies were given it; 5,724 Americans have been recorded with it between 1893 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,360 Americans named Hobert and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (24% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 57 and 80.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hobert by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hobert?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,209, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
185 babies in 1922, the peak
Hobert peaked in 1922, when 185 boys were given it, #452 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #11,209 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,530 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,521 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,378 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,138 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,004 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,627 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,045 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,122 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,727 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 13 | #3,603 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,612 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,378 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,166 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,281 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,568 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 10 | #3,958 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,157 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,822 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,698 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,707 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 17 | #2,543 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,575 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 22 | #2,015 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 15 | #2,546 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 27 | #1,703 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 27 | #1,722 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 27 | #1,673 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 31 | #1,452 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 30 | #1,442 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 28 | #1,460 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 31 | #1,383 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,247 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 38 | #1,267 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 31 | #1,412 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 32 | #1,394 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 31 | #1,447 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 47 | #1,141 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 39 | #1,252 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 45 | #1,149 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,236 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 50 | #1,074 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 50 | #1,069 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 56 | #1,000 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 52 | #1,006 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 56 | #957 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 66 | #861 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 54 | #939 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 48 | #1,010 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 67 | #831 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 81 | #765 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 70 | #796 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 69 | #739 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 92 | #647 | 0.07 |
| 1943 | 82 | #711 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 100 | #638 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 80 | #684 | 0.07 |
| 1940 | 84 | #662 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 64 | #758 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 96 | #606 | 0.09 |
| 1937 | 85 | #643 | 0.08 |
| 1936 | 81 | #648 | 0.08 |
| 1935 | 108 | #555 | 0.10 |
| 1934 | 95 | #608 | 0.09 |
| 1933 | 108 | #552 | 0.11 |
| 1932 | 125 | #518 | 0.12 |
| 1931 | 126 | #514 | 0.12 |
| 1930 | 133 | #519 | 0.12 |
| 1929 | 118 | #540 | 0.11 |
| 1928 | 134 | #521 | 0.12 |
| 1927 | 144 | #506 | 0.13 |
| 1926 | 116 | #572 | 0.10 |
| 1925 | 156 | #488 | 0.14 |
| 1924 | 171 | #473 | 0.15 |
| 1923 | 166 | #474 | 0.15 |
| 1922 | 185 | #452 | 0.17 |
| 1921 | 165 | #478 | 0.15 |
| 1920 | 168 | #471 | 0.16 |
| 1919 | 167 | #455 | 0.17 |
| 1918 | 153 | #481 | 0.15 |
| 1917 | 120 | #530 | 0.13 |
| 1916 | 106 | #557 | 0.12 |
| 1915 | 106 | #542 | 0.12 |
| 1914 | 43 | #806 | 0.07 |
| 1913 | 48 | #644 | 0.09 |
| 1912 | 38 | #697 | 0.09 |
| 1911 | 26 | #603 | 0.12 |
| 1910 | 19 | #691 | 0.10 |
| 1909 | 21 | #583 | 0.13 |
| 1908 | 23 | #529 | 0.15 |
| 1907 | 18 | #607 | 0.12 |
| 1906 | 22 | #481 | 0.17 |
| 1905 | 20 | #515 | 0.15 |
| 1904 | 15 | #598 | 0.12 |
| 1903 | 16 | #562 | 0.13 |
| 1902 | 20 | #480 | 0.16 |
| 1901 | 11 | #660 | 0.10 |
| 1900 | 36 | #369 | 0.24 |
| 1899 | 22 | #398 | 0.21 |
| 1898 | 42 | #282 | 0.34 |
| 1897 | 60 | #216 | 0.53 |
| 1896 | 47 | #263 | 0.39 |
| 1895 | 8 | #828 | 0.07 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,161 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,113 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hobert a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hobert has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 105 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hobert: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hobert, and how old are they?
1,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 24% of the 5,724 Americans ever recorded as Hobert. The median Hobert alive today is 70 years old; half are between 57 and 80.
The 2020 Census counted 4,379 people named Hobert (4 women and girls, 4,375 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,769 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 304 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 606 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 312 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 122 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 16 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Hobert born?
The states with the most babies named Hobert are Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, with 64% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and Tennessee and West Virginia are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 1,100 | not ranked | 8.5× |
| Tennessee | 575 | not ranked | 4.4× |
| West Virginia | 548 | not ranked | 6.5× |
| North Carolina | 314 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Virginia | 272 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Alabama | 155 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 119 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 98 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 96 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Arkansas | 53 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Hobert is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hobert is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 8.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hobert with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 9,530 babies since 1880, Hobert is the most given (60% 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 Hobert
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 Hobert and names like it
- Compare Hobert and HobartBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHobert peaked in 1922.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hobert since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Hobert.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Hobert alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.