Norberto
Norberto was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,538 among boys’ names; 4,924 Americans have been recorded with it since 1921 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,190 Americans named Norberto and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 26 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Norberto by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Norberto mean?
Wiktionary, Tagalog section
Norberto is “a male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Norbert”
Borrowed from Spanish Norberto.
/noɾˈbeɾto/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Tagalog section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Norberto?
#5,538 among boys’ names, 2025
Norberto fell from #3,845 in 2015 to #5,538 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.6 to 10.0 per million.
103 babies in 1981, the peak
Norberto peaked in 1981, when 103 boys were given it, #880 among boys’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,538 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,291 | 14.5 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,399 | 10.5 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,534 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,244 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,892 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,287 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,563 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,741 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,064 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,845 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 45 | #2,692 | 23.4 |
| 2013 | 32 | #3,384 | 16.9 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,214 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 40 | #2,938 | 21.1 |
| 2010 | 39 | #2,994 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 46 | #2,689 | 23.2 |
| 2008 | 49 | #2,570 | 24.0 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,108 | 31.3 |
| 2006 | 71 | #1,911 | 34.5 |
| 2005 | 71 | #1,826 | 35.5 |
| 2004 | 73 | #1,741 | 36.8 |
| 2003 | 88 | #1,484 | 44.5 |
| 2002 | 87 | #1,464 | 44.8 |
| 2001 | 84 | #1,465 | 43.2 |
| 2000 | 73 | #1,620 | 37.2 |
| 1999 | 89 | #1,348 | 46.4 |
| 1998 | 65 | #1,613 | 34.0 |
| 1997 | 71 | #1,491 | 37.7 |
| 1996 | 76 | #1,394 | 40.1 |
| 1995 | 80 | #1,313 | 42.0 |
| 1994 | 94 | #1,186 | 48.7 |
| 1993 | 98 | #1,136 | 50.0 |
| 1992 | 87 | #1,203 | 43.6 |
| 1991 | 97 | #1,110 | 48.0 |
| 1990 | 98 | #1,076 | 47.7 |
| 1989 | 89 | #1,121 | 44.5 |
| 1988 | 95 | #999 | 49.6 |
| 1987 | 73 | #1,126 | 39.1 |
| 1986 | 89 | #978 | 48.3 |
| 1985 | 73 | #1,086 | 39.5 |
| 1984 | 73 | #1,051 | 40.4 |
| 1983 | 77 | #1,011 | 43.0 |
| 1982 | 84 | #987 | 46.3 |
| 1981 | 103 | #880 | 57.5 |
| 1980 | 97 | #909 | 54.4 |
| 1979 | 74 | #1,032 | 43.0 |
| 1978 | 70 | #1,046 | 42.6 |
| 1977 | 73 | #1,009 | 44.4 |
| 1976 | 65 | #1,035 | 41.4 |
| 1975 | 66 | #1,016 | 42.3 |
| 1974 | 71 | #975 | 45.2 |
| 1973 | 73 | #947 | 46.8 |
| 1972 | 73 | #948 | 45.0 |
| 1971 | 72 | #961 | 40.7 |
| 1970 | 83 | #890 | 44.7 |
| 1969 | 59 | #1,007 | 33.0 |
| 1968 | 56 | #992 | 32.2 |
| 1967 | 65 | #897 | 37.3 |
| 1966 | 53 | #1,002 | 29.7 |
| 1965 | 50 | #1,051 | 26.9 |
| 1964 | 73 | #894 | 36.6 |
| 1963 | 47 | #1,133 | 23.1 |
| 1962 | 57 | #1,019 | 27.6 |
| 1961 | 74 | #894 | 34.8 |
| 1960 | 52 | #1,079 | 24.4 |
| 1959 | 56 | #1,028 | 26.2 |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,244 | 18.4 |
| 1957 | 51 | #1,070 | 23.6 |
| 1956 | 38 | #1,245 | 18.0 |
| 1955 | 38 | #1,233 | 18.4 |
| 1954 | 34 | #1,304 | 16.7 |
| 1953 | 37 | #1,238 | 18.8 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,262 | 18.0 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,479 | 13.8 |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,486 | 14.0 |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,452 | 14.7 |
| 1948 | 16 | #1,921 | 9.1 |
| 1947 | 19 | #1,769 | 10.4 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,115 | 8.0 |
| 1945 | 18 | #1,611 | 13.4 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,421 | 7.3 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,683 | 6.3 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,350 | 8.0 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,169 | 9.8 |
| 1940 | 17 | #1,727 | 14.7 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,255 | 9.9 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,597 | 8.1 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,830 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,147 | 11.6 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,743 | 16.3 |
| 1934 | 14 | #1,995 | 13.6 |
| 1933 | 14 | #1,972 | 14.1 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,167 | 12.5 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,072 | 13.5 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,739 | 17.3 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,712 | 18.6 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,023 | 14.4 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,171 | 13.3 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,385 | 11.7 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,283 | 12.5 |
| 1924 | 18 | #1,946 | 15.9 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,372 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,172 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,340 | 12.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Norberto a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Norberto 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 Norberto: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Norberto, and how old are they?
4,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 4,924 Americans ever recorded as Norberto. The median Norberto alive today is 38 years old; half are between 26 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 10,382 people named Norberto (32 women and girls, 10,350 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,243 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 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 | 44 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 528 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 975 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,320 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,020 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 310 |
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 Norberto born?
The states with the most babies named Norberto are Texas, California and New York, with 86% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,314 | #2,230 | 3.4× |
| California | 936 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| New York | 674 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| New Jersey | 179 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 113 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 68 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 49 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Connecticut | 22 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Massachusetts | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Norberto is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Norberto is most over-represented in Texas: since 1921 it was given 3.4 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 Norberto with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Norberto
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 Norberto and names like it
- Compare Norberto and RobertoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sNorberto peaked in 1981.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Norberto since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Norberto: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Norberto.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Norberto alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.