Elbert
given name · Latin script
Meaning: An American surname
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɛɫbɝt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Elbert is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 24K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 27K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 369 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
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)
An American surname.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elbert 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | listed | Elbert | 70 |
| US United States | — | 9,684 | 1 in 34K | 9.7K | Elbert | 369 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Elbert | 57 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,066 | 1 in 8.4K | 2.1K | Elbert | 43 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Elbert | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 1 | Elbert | 58 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Elbert | 18 |
| IE Ireland | #609 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Elbert | 6 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the ph-wiktionary-names register; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Elbert 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.
In French, Du germanique adal + berht « noble, brillant »; variante d’Albert.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In English, The gracious or handsome protector
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
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)
- Elbert Henry Garyb. 1846USAmerican judge and businessman (1846–1927)
- Elbert Hubbardb. 1856USAmerican writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher
- Elbert Lee Trinkleb. 1876USAmerican politician (1876-1939)
- Elbert D. Thomasb. 1883USAmerican politician (1883-1953)
- Elbert N. Carvelb. 1910USDelaware politician (1910-2005)
- Elbert Rootb. 1915USdiver (1915–1983)
- Elbert Tuganovb. 1920EEEstonian animator, film director (1920-2007)
- Al Butlerb. 1938USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (1938-2000)
- Burt Rutanb. 1943USnot in their usual nameAmerican aerospace engineer (born 1943)
- Elbert Dijkgraafb. 1970NLDutch economist and politician
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 58 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9.7K | #2,513 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 2.1K | #675 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 1.2K | #1,863 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 33 | #2,513 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 9 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 9 | #23,928 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1972 | 6 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2023 | 1 | #2,230 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
| PH Philippines | Tagalog given names (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Elbert mean, and where does it come from?
- An American surname. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Elbert have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Elbert in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elbert.
- Where is Elbert most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elbert is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 8.4 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Elbert?
- In the etymology graph, Alberto, Albert and Adalberto are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Elbert?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɛɫbɝt/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Elbert a male or female name?
- Elbert 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.
- How common is the name Elbert?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,684 people named Elbert in 2020, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
- How common is Elbert compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Elbert is the 609th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Elbert?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elbertThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Elbert” — the 609th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.