Norbert
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A male given name from the Germanic languages
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 56 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈnɔɐ̯bɛɐ̯t/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Norbert is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 44th most common given name.
- HUHungary1 in 195(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 660
- ATAustria≈1 in 700
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Norbert itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- 1 in 195 (inferred from the name graph)
50,054 people, 2025
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary
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 name from elements meaning 'north' and 'bright'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Norbert is read
(measured from records)Norbert is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German53%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Norbert in German.
- English23%
A male given name from the Germanic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French8.6%
Germanic name from elements meaning 'north' and 'bright'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
From Germ. 'north' + 'bright'; saint name.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Germanic: nord + berht, « brillant ». Saint Norbert, évêque de Xanten, fêté le 6 juin.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Du germanique nord + beraht « brillant » ; saint Norbert, fête le 6 juin.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Norbert, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Norbert 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #44 | 50,054 | 1 in 195 | 50K | Norbert | 182 |
| PL Poland | #189 | 39,260 | 1 in 975 | 39K | Norbert | 161 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 696 | 820 | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 27K | Norbert | 3 |
| US United States | — | 8,699 | 1 in 38K | 8.7K | Norbert | 163 |
| SK Slovakia | #87 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 660 | — | Norbert | 101 |
| CH Switzerland | #762 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Norbert | 22 |
50,054 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025. 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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)Norbert 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.
From an Old French name of Germanic (Frankish) origin, from nord ‘north’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’. The bestknown bearer of this name was an 11thcentury saint who founded an order of monks, known as Norbertians (also called Premonstratensians from their first home at Premontré near Laon). Norbert was one of several names of Germanic origin that were revived in
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)- Norbert of Xantenb. 1080NL12th‑century German bishop and founder of the Premonstratensians, Catholic saint, reformer of clergy and defender of the Eucharist
- Norbert Vinerb. 1894USAmerican mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence (1894–1964)
- Norbert Eliasb. 1897GBGerman sociologist (1897–1990)
- Karel Schwarzenbergb. 1937CZnot in their usual nameCzech politician, minister of foreign affairs and vice prime minister (1937–2023)
- Norbert Ratsirahonanab. 1938MGMalagasy politician
- Nobby Stilesb. 1942GBnot in their usual nameEnglish footballer (1942-2020)
- Norbert Weisserb. 1946DEGerman-born actor
- Jürgen Kloppb. 1967DEnot in their usual nameGerman association football manager (born 1967)
- Norbert Leo Butzb. 1967USAmerican actor and singer
- Norbert Hoferb. 1971ATAustrian politician (born 1971)
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)113 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 56 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 50K | #28 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 39K | #103 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 39K | #105 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1999 | 27K | #1,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8.7K | #2,700 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 820 | #536 |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek — given names by decade | 1997 | 820 | #22 |
| HU Hungary | KSH — births by given name | 2024 | 155 | — |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 newborn names (2020–2024) | 2024 | 155 | #69 |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek.hu — Top-100 newborn given names 2025 (M+F) | 2025 | 145 | #69 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 63 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10 | #2,700 |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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)
- 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
- Where does the name Norbert come from?
- Germanic name from elements meaning 'north' and 'bright'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What does the name Norbert mean?
- In English, A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- What are other forms of the name Norbert?
- In the etymology graph, Norberto and Norbaer are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Norbert?
- It depends on the language: in German /ˈnɔɐ̯bɛɐ̯t/ (Wiktionary); in French /nɔʁ.bɛʁ/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Norbert have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 50 thousand people named Norbert, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled norbert.
- Where is Norbert most common?
- Norbert is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 195 people carrying it.
- Is Norbert a male or female name?
- Norbert is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Hungary (Nyilvántartó, 2025), Poland (dane.gov.pl), France (INSEE, 1999) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020), among others.
- How common is the name Norbert?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 50,054 people named Norbert in 2025, about 1 in 195 residents.
- How common is Norbert compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Norbert is the 44th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/norbertThe 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, “Norbert” — the 44th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.