Humberto
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Humberto is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 16th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Germanic Hunpreht/Huniberht: hun 'cub' + berht 'bright'; 'brightness of the cub'.
- PEPeru≈1 in 859(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela1 in 1K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #709 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 410 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 859 (inferred from the name graph)
42,530 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Germanic Hunpreht/Huniberht: hun 'cub' + berht 'bright'; 'brightness of the cub'
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Humberto counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #355 | 42,530 | 1 in 5K | 46K | Humberto | 195 |
| PE Peru | #98 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 859 | — | Humberto | 108 |
| US United States | — | 34,796 | 1 in 9.6K | 35K | Humberto | 410 |
| AR Argentina | #219 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 152 | Humberto | 112 |
| CO Colombia | #152 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 28 | Humberto | 152 |
| VE Venezuela | #97 | 27,642 | 1 in 1K | 28K | Humberto | 97 |
| EC Ecuador | #60 | 12,067 | 1 in 1.4K | 12K | Humberto | 70 |
| HN Honduras | #16 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Humberto | 44 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 3,196 | 1 in 1.1K | 3.2K | — | 49 |
42,530 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Humberto is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
$ See }Humbert in main dictionary and }Umberto in former Italian supplement.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Distinguido y brillante
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Umberto III, Count of Savoyb. 1136ITnot in their usual nameCount of Maurienne, Count of Savoy, Marquess in Italia and Blessed
- Infante Afonso, Duke of Oportob. 1865PTnot in their usual namePortuguese Royal (1865–1920)
- Humberto de Alencar Castelo Brancob. 1900BRBrazilian military leader and politician; former President of Brazil (1900-1967)
- Carlos Humberto Romerob. 1924SVPresident of El Salvador (1924-2017)
- Humberto Maturanab. 1928CLChilean biologist and philosopher (1928–2021)
- Carlos Santanab. 1947MXnot in their usual nameAmerican guitarist
- Tito Larrivab. 1953USnot in their usual nameMexican-American musician
- Gabriel Calderónb. 1960ARnot in their usual nameArgentine association football player and manager
- Humberto Ramosb. 1970MXcomics artist
- Carlos Ruizb. 1979GTnot in their usual nameGuatemalan footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 46K | #829 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 43K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 42K | #637 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 35K | #1,146 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 28K | #68 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 12K | #171 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 3.2K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 3.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 453 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 145 | #637 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 84 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 75 | #1,146 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Humberto mean, and where does it come from?
- Germanic Hunpreht/Huniberht: hun 'cub' + berht 'bright'; 'brightness of the cub' Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- Is Humberto a male or female name?
- Humberto is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Humberto?
- In the etymology graph, Umberto is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Humberto have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 43 thousand people named Humberto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled humberto.
- How common is the name Humberto?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 42,530 people named Humberto in 2022, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Humberto compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Humberto is the 355th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/humbertoThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Humberto” — the 355th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.