Guilbert
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements wil(j)- ‘will’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
Guilbert is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 5K(inferred from the name graph)
- DMDominica1 in 25K
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 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). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements wil(j)- ‘will’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Guilbert 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #274 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 1.6K | Guilbert | 278 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Guilbert | 85 |
| US United States | — | 638 | 1 in 521K | 651 | Guilbert | 130 |
| BE Belgium | — | 386 | 1 in 30K | 386 | Guilbert | 36 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 214K | — | Guilbert | 30 |
| DM Dominica | — | 3 | 1 in 25K | 3 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 2 | 1 in 51K | 2 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 2 | 1 in 27K | 2 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)Guilbert is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, soit du nom germanique Wilberht, de wil « volonté » et berht « audacieux », ou une variante de Gilbert
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)- Aimé-Victor-François Guilbertb. 1812FRFrench cardinal (1812-1889)
- Yvette Guilbertb. 1865FRFrench cabaret singer
- Narcisse Guilbertb. 1878FRFrench painter (1878-1942)
- Madeleine Guilbertb. 1910FRFrench sociologist, politician (1910-2006)
- Ann Guilbertb. 1928USAmerican actress (1928-2016)
- Paul Guilbertb. 1932FRFrench journalist (1932-2002)
- Cécile Guilbertb. 1963FRFrench writer and literary critic
- Charles Guilbertb. 1972FRFrench bicycle racer
- Frédéric Guilbertb. 1994FRFrench footballer (born 1994)
- Philippe GuilbertFRFrench cinematographer
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)Evidence
(measured from records)37 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 2.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1.9K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 1.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 1.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 787 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 651 | #36,891 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Guilbert mean, and where does it come from?
- from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements wil(j)- ‘will’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Guilbert have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Guilbert in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guilbert.
- How common is the name Guilbert?
- In the United States, the national register counted 638 people named Guilbert in 2010, about 1 in 521 thousand residents.
- How common is Guilbert compared with other names?
- In France, Guilbert is the 274th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guilbertThe 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, “Guilbert” — the 274th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.