Gilberte
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Feminine form of Gilbert; Germanic gisal ‘pledge’ + berht ‘bright’
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ʒil.bɛʁt/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Gilberte is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 5.4K
- FRFrance≈1 in 6.7K
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
- 203 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Feminine form of Gilbert; Germanic gisal ‘pledge’ + berht ‘bright’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gilberte 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 | #837 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | 62K | Gilberte | 203 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Gilberte | 4 |
| BE Belgium | #609 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Gilberte | 37 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Gilberte | 4 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Gilberte | 46 |
| US United States | — | 347 | 1 in 959K | 342 | Gilberte | 84 |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 5 | — | 3 |
| RE Réunion | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 5 | — | 4 |
| MQ Martinique | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 5 | — | 3 |
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 prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion). 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)Gilberte is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Feminine of Gilbert, Germanic 'pledge' + 'bright'.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, a female given name, masculine equivalent Gilbert
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Origine germanique; signifie « lance illustre ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Féminin de Gilbert, du germanique *gisil* + *berht*.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)- Gilberte Périerb. 1620FRFrench biographer, sister of Blaise Pascal
- Gilberte Brossoletteb. 1905FRFrench politician and journalist (1905-2004)
- Gilberte Cournandb. 1913FRFrench journalist, art dealer and bookseller
- Gilberte Géniatb. 1916FRFrench actress
- Gilberte H. Dallasb. 1918FRFrench writer
- Gilberte Bérégovoyb. 1920FRspouse of Pierre Bérégovoy
- Gilberte Brassaïb. 1920FRFrench photographer (1920–2005)
- Gilberte Beauxb. 1929FRFrench businessperson
- Brigitte Deydierb. 1958FRnot in their usual nameFrench judoka
- Patricia FrayssinetPEnot in their usual namePeruvian actress
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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Gilberte mean, and where does it come from?
- Feminine form of Gilbert; Germanic gisal ‘pledge’ + berht ‘bright’. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- What are other forms of the name Gilberte?
- In the etymology graph, Giselle and Gilberta are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Gilberte?
- In French /ʒil.bɛʁt/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Gilberte have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Gilberte in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gilberte.
- Is Gilberte a male or female name?
- Gilberte is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 1980), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (IBGE).
- How common is the name Gilberte?
- In the United States, the national register counted 347 people named Gilberte in 2020, about 1 in 959 thousand residents.
- How common is Gilberte compared with other names?
- In France, Gilberte is the 837th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gilberteThe 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, “Gilberte” — the 837th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.