Gilberto
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: a male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Gilbert
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xilberto/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gilberto is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Angola it is the 100th most common given name.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 974(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.1K
- BRBrazil1 in 1.1K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #984 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 400 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 974 (inferred from the name graph)
187,565 people, 2022
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Romance/Italian form of Gilbert; Germanic gisal ‘pledge’ + berht ‘bright’.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gilberto is read(measured from records)
Gilberto 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.
- Spanish49%
Germánico Gislberht: gisl 'lanza' + berht 'brillo'; 'brillo de la lanza'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Portuguese32%
a male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Gilbert
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gilberto in English.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Gilberto 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #121 | 187,565 | 1 in 1.1K | 213K | Gilberto | 208 |
| US United States | — | 40,957 | 1 in 8.1K | 41K | Gilberto | 400 |
| CO Colombia | #287 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 17 | Gilberto | 138 |
| VE Venezuela | #180 | 22,556 | 1 in 1.3K | 23K | Gilberto | 78 |
| PE Peru | #290 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Gilberto | 61 |
| AO Angola | #100 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Gilberto | 35 |
| PY Paraguay | #166 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 974 | — | Gilberto | 31 |
| SV El Salvador | #188 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Gilberto | 47 |
187,565 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)
Gilberto 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, Romance/Italian form of Gilbert; Germanic gisal ‘pledge’ + berht ‘bright’.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Italian form of Gilbert, Germanic 'pledge' + 'bright'.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Italian, from a reduced form of the personal name Giliberto.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Italian, forma italiana de Gilbertus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Gilbert, Duke of Lorraineb. 890FRnot in their usual nameDuke of Lotharingia
- Gilbert de La Porréeb. 1070FRnot in their usual nameFrench theologian (1070-1076, 1154)
- Gilberto Freyreb. 1900BRBrazilian politician and academic (1900–1987)
- Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuelab. 1939COColombian drug lord, formerly one of the leaders of the Cali Cartel (1939–2022)
- Gilberto Gilb. 1942BRBrazilian recording artist, singer, guitarist, songwriter and politician
- Gilberto Kassabb. 1960BRBrazilian politician
- Gilberto Silvab. 1976BRBrazilian footballer
- Gilberto da Silva Melob. 1976BRBrazilian association football player
- Gibab. 1976BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian volleyball player
- Carlos Gilberto Nascimento Silvab. 1987BRfootball player
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)
Attested in 78 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 213K | #244 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 188K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 187K | #175 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 41K | #1,028 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 23K | #86 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 533 | #175 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 396 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 114 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 71 | #1,028 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 17 | #104 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 5 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Where does the name Gilberto come from?
- Romance/Italian form of Gilbert; Germanic gisal ‘pledge’ + berht ‘bright’. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- How do you pronounce Gilberto?
- A machine transcription gives /xilberto/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Gilberto mean?
- In Portuguese, a male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Gilbert
- Is Gilberto a male or female name?
- Gilberto 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 Gilberto?
- In the etymology graph, Gilbert, GiB and Giselbert are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Gilberto have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 188 thousand people named Gilberto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gilberto.
- How common is the name Gilberto?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 187,565 people named Gilberto in 2022, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Gilberto compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Gilberto is the 121st most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gilbertoThe 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, “Gilberto” — the 121st most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.