Hilbert
Hilbert is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 656th, in 1914.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192283 births
- Best rank
- #656in 1914
- Since 1900
- 2,020people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,020 boys have been named Hilbert in the United States since 1900, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 83 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 83 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 30%. It has spent 21 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1922, its biggest year
Hilbert was the 719th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Hilbert
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Burdettepeak 1922
- Melbournepeak 1922
- Verlpeak 1918
- Dewardpeak 1924
- Arvelpeak 1921
- Pasqualepeak 1917
- Casimirpeak 1919
- Vergilpeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.