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Hobert

As a boy's name, Hobert is understood to mean "bright mind". It seems to have quietly disappeared from birth records after the 1920s. Today, it is seldom chosen in the registry. It has appeared in U.S. birth records in nearly every decade since 1900, a genuinely long run.

EtymologyVariant of Hubert
EtymologyMeaning "bright mind"
Births by decade
1900s
202
1910s
826
1920s
1,523
1930s
1,020
1940s
773
1950s
508
1960s
337
1970s
193
1980s
100
1990s
41
2000s
11
2010s
0
Peaked in the 1920s · 5,534 total U.S. births since 1900