Norbert
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Norbert is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Hungary it is the 44th most common given name. In English, recorded as A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- HUHungary1 in 195(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 975
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- 1 in 195 (inferred from the name graph)
≈86,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
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'.
Sources 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈86,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Norbert | 18 |
| HU Hungary | #44 | 50,054 | 1 in 195 | 50K | Norbert | 182 |
| PL Poland | #189 | 39,260 | 1 in 975 | 39K | Norbert | 161 |
| FR France | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 27K | Norbert | 3 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 848 | 820 | — | 1 |
| SK Slovakia | #87 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Norbert | 101 |
| CH Switzerland | #762 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Norbert | 22 |
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); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 113 sources 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 |
| 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 | — |
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.
- In which country does Norbert have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 86 thousand people named Norbert in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled norbert.
- Where is Norbert most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Norbert is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 195 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- Is Norbert a male or female name?
- Norbert is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- 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 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 same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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 2026-10-10.