Norbert Forename
1,266th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 747,734 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Liechtenstein
Norbert Forename Definition:
Teutonic, ‘Niord’s brightness’: cf., therefore, Norman. It is under a cloud, not yet opaque. (I remember it—or am I confusing it with some similar name?—only in connexion with a grandiose poem recited in the early years of this century.
Read More About This ForenameNorbert Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 100% | 339,097 | 1:285 | 76 |
| DR Congo | 99% | 110,165 | 1:670 | 130 |
| Hungary | 100% | 34,171 | 1:287 | 72 |
| Poland | 100% | 33,833 | 1:1,124 | 165 |
| Austria | 100% | 23,092 | 1:369 | 98 |
| Romania | 100% | 22,704 | 1:883 | 140 |
| United States | 100% | 22,589 | 1:16,049 | 1,431 |
| France | 100% | 16,986 | 1:3,913 | 391 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 14,744 | 1:771 | 174 |
| Burundi | 88% | 12,310 | 1:805 | 251 |
| Madagascar | 100% | 12,092 | 1:1,954 | 468 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 10,416 | 1:2,075 | 411 |
| Benin | 100% | 8,789 | 1:1,203 | 281 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 8,680 | 1:6,082 | 941 |
| Belgium | 100% | 6,927 | 1:1,659 | 380 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 5,411 | 1:1,518 | 319 |
| Ghana | 100% | 5,113 | 1:5,278 | 655 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 4,303 | 1:3,928 | 642 |
| Canada | 100% | 4,297 | 1:7,711 | 1,008 |
| Uganda | 99% | 3,695 | 1:11,084 | 1,082 |
| Philippines | 99% | 3,583 | 1:29,587 | 2,639 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 3,458 | 1:1,536 | 188 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 3,302 | 1:5,566 | 703 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 2,890 | 1:33,758 | 3,899 |
| Togo | - | 2,555 | 1:2,833 | 470 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 2,489 | 1:6,197 | 921 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 2,223 | 1:254 | 54 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 2,002 | 1:88,693 | 5,210 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 1,961 | 1:11,767 | 1,210 |
| Sudan | 100% | 1,785 | 1:21,180 | 2,091 |
| Kenya | 100% | 1,649 | 1:28,082 | 2,418 |
| England | 99% | 1,437 | 1:38,694 | 1,994 |
| Guinea | 100% | 1,315 | 1:9,018 | 677 |
| Czechia | 100% | 1,195 | 1:8,917 | 427 |
| Italy | 100% | 1,190 | 1:51,313 | 1,365 |
| Papua New Guinea | 99% | 838 | 1:9,728 | 975 |
| Congo | 100% | 638 | 1:7,851 | 1,066 |
| Gabon | 100% | 601 | 1:3,134 | 706 |
| India | 100% | 598 | 1:2,031,569 | 105,432 |
| Chad | 100% | 556 | 1:24,458 | 3,046 |
| Brazil | 100% | 529 | 1:404,983 | 14,271 |
| Thailand | 100% | 506 | 1:138,470 | 10,419 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 466 | 1:66,121 | 7,124 |
| Namibia | - | 458 | 1:5,249 | 758 |
| Australia | - | 456 | 1:29,951 | 1,785 |
| Spain | 100% | 450 | 1:103,400 | 2,933 |
| South Africa | 100% | 439 | 1:124,220 | 9,369 |
| Mali | 100% | 387 | 1:43,870 | 2,498 |
| Morocco | - | 382 | 1:89,918 | 3,081 |
| Bangladesh | - | 367 | 1:434,500 | 16,631 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 352 | 1:29,634 | 2,409 |
| Serbia | 100% | 346 | 1:20,652 | 1,317 |
| Sweden | 100% | 345 | 1:28,574 | 1,796 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 335 | 1:90,895 | 6,550 |
| Malta | - | 318 | 1:1,350 | 287 |
| Ireland | 100% | 306 | 1:15,175 | 886 |
| Ukraine | 99% | 291 | 1:156,357 | 1,102 |
| Israel | 97% | 268 | 1:31,354 | 2,401 |
| Jamaica | - | 253 | 1:11,396 | 1,225 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 252 | 1:5,402 | 926 |
| French Polynesia | - | 222 | 1:1,252 | 279 |
| Norway | 100% | 209 | 1:24,557 | 1,362 |
| Indonesia | - | 194 | 1:1,329,710 | 76,306 |
| Zambia | - | 188 | 1:84,334 | 4,281 |
| Senegal | 100% | 185 | 1:78,818 | 2,508 |
| Denmark | - | 167 | 1:33,829 | 1,533 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 165 | 1:229 | 60 |
| Portugal | - | 157 | 1:66,311 | 2,082 |
| Malawi | 100% | 127 | 1:134,743 | 6,567 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 127 | 1:1,400 | 248 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 120 | 1:251,682 | 8,498 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 117 | 1:2,309 | 436 |
| Guyana | 100% | 114 | 1:6,695 | 1,132 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 113 | 1:1,379 | 374 |
| Swaziland | - | 103 | 1:12,623 | 1,554 |
| Croatia | 100% | 102 | 1:41,344 | 1,576 |
| Finland | 94% | 102 | 1:53,757 | 1,767 |
| Mauritius | - | 98 | 1:13,243 | 1,513 |
| Kuwait | - | 95 | 1:39,845 | 3,619 |
| New Zealand | - | 87 | 1:52,138 | 2,788 |
| Paraguay | 97% | 87 | 1:83,182 | 2,332 |
| Peru | 100% | 84 | 1:378,470 | 7,528 |
| Seychelles | - | 84 | 1:1,103 | 263 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 81 | 1:88,296 | 7,308 |
| Scotland | 97% | 68 | 1:78,682 | 2,043 |
| Greece | 100% | 63 | 1:173,564 | 3,763 |
| Grenada | 100% | 63 | 1:1,716 | 364 |
| Japan | - | 60 | 1:2,133,101 | 20,148 |
| Botswana | 100% | 58 | 1:37,663 | 3,938 |
| Russia | 100% | 55 | 1:2,622,431 | 16,061 |
| China | - | 54 | 1:25,297,329 | 60,706 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 53 | 1:46,392 | 1,990 |
| Mexico | 100% | 46 | 1:2,698,792 | 14,064 |
| Guam | - | 45 | 1:3,570 | 683 |
| Iceland | - | 39 | 1:9,385 | 882 |
| Chile | 100% | 38 | 1:463,348 | 5,820 |
| Ecuador | - | 36 | 1:492,414 | 5,316 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 35 | 1:1,562 | 330 |
| Micronesia | - | 33 | 1:3,227 | 418 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 33 | 1:3,326 | 600 |
| Estonia | 100% | 29 | 1:45,358 | 2,735 |
| Pakistan | 84% | 27 | 1:7,198,433 | 59,826 |
| Lithuania | - | 25 | 1:118,075 | 1,581 |
| Singapore | 100% | 24 | 1:261,961 | 9,116 |
| Wales | 85% | 24 | 1:128,930 | 2,823 |
| Hong Kong | - | 22 | 1:352,397 | 3,870 |
| Panama | 100% | 20 | 1:195,328 | 7,631 |
| Gibraltar | - | 18 | 1:1,897 | 362 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 18 | 1:197,239 | 2,551 |
| Monaco | 100% | 17 | 1:2,263 | 456 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 15 | 1:6,626 | 1,171 |
| Belize | 100% | 15 | 1:23,621 | 2,493 |
| Georgia | 100% | 15 | 1:249,231 | 6,179 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 15 | 1:1,073,895 | 4,712 |
| Qatar | 100% | 15 | 1:157,974 | 16,771 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 100% | 15 | 1:421 | 107 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 15 | 1:38,730 | 2,561 |
| Belarus | 100% | 14 | 1:677,313 | 4,005 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 13 | 1:141,780 | 1,629 |
| Colombia | 100% | 13 | 1:3,675,302 | 23,534 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 13 | 1:462,949 | 8,230 |
| Armenia | 100% | 12 | 1:243,229 | 3,990 |
| Oman | - | 12 | 1:342,389 | 4,330 |
| South Korea | - | 12 | 1:462,035 | 12,149 |
| Argentina | 100% | 11 | 1:3,888,477 | 10,916 |
| Albania | 100% | 10 | 1:304,657 | 13,389 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 10 | 1:3,125 | 680 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 10 | 1:476,795 | 7,334 |
| Haiti | - | 10 | 1:1,072,695 | 14,984 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 10 | 1:11,158 | 1,580 |
| Angola | - | 9 | 1:2,996,290 | 3,522 |
| Bahrain | - | 9 | 1:149,853 | 3,890 |
| Bermuda | - | 9 | 1:7,203 | 999 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 9 | 1:776,710 | 9,666 |
| Uruguay | - | 9 | 1:380,849 | 5,148 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 8 | 1:108,884 | 3,058 |
| Bahamas | - | 6 | 1:66,562 | 1,346 |
| Kosovo | - | 6 | 1:310,240 | 9,823 |
| Honduras | - | 5 | 1:1,763,493 | 15,274 |
| Iraq | - | 4 | 1:8,754,465 | 16,071 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 4 | 1:12,808 | 1,787 |
| Mongolia | - | 4 | 1:733,704 | 10,632 |
| Somalia | - | 4 | 1:3,381,467 | 5,208 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 4 | 1:5,199,772 | 10,550 |
| Suriname | - | 4 | 1:138,203 | 2,927 |
| Turkey | 100% | 4 | 1:19,450,427 | 45,600 |
| Vanuatu | - | 4 | 1:65,448 | 976 |
| Afghanistan | - | 3 | 1:10,874,505 | 40,253 |
| Cambodia | - | 3 | 1:5,424,443 | 41,412 |
| Niger | 100% | 3 | 1:6,394,665 | 47,369 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 3 | 1:7,923,227 | 99,341 |
| Vietnam | - | 3 | 1:30,874,371 | 5,995 |
| Algeria | - | 2 | 1:19,088,360 | 22,377 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 2 | 1:4,821,472 | 33,780 |
| Bolivia | - | 2 | 1:5,300,702 | 6,605 |
| Dominica | - | 2 | 1:37,736 | 863 |
| El Salvador | - | 2 | 1:3,170,893 | 11,665 |
| Latvia | - | 2 | 1:1,007,822 | 4,547 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 2 | 1:2,813,786 | 13,895 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 2 | 1:1,019,998 | 36,117 |
| Liberia | 100% | 2 | 1:2,206,030 | 27,695 |
| American Samoa | - | 1 | 1:55,845 | 3,376 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Barbados | - | 1 | 1:289,789 | 3,893 |
| Bhutan | - | 1 | 1:824,928 | 6,865 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Cape Verde | - | 1 | 1:529,151 | 6,361 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Central African Republic | - | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,073 |
| Comoros | - | 1 | 1:761,339 | 901 |
| Egypt | - | 1 | 1:91,900,946 | 53,283 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Greenland | - | 1 | 1:56,371 | 1,395 |
| Jersey | - | 1 | 1:99,980 | 2,122 |
| Kazakhstan | - | 1 | 1:17,746,845 | 44,366 |
| Kyrgyzstan | - | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Mozambique | - | 1 | 1:27,243,357 | 5,091 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Palau | - | 1 | 1:21,711 | 239 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 1 | 1:54,861 | 2,604 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | - | 1 | 1:191,997 | 5,295 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 1 | 1:7,088,663 | 1,497 |
| Tajikistan | - | 1 | 1:8,374,922 | 7,831 |
| Tuvalu | - | 1 | 1:11,131 | 89 |
| Uzbekistan | - | 1 | 1:30,786,440 | 17,476 |
| Yemen | - | 1 | 1:26,296,751 | 14,474 |
The alternate forms: Nórbert (211) & Nörbert (1) are calculated separately.
Norbert (19,700) may also be a surname.
Norbert Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Teutonic, ‘Niord’s brightness’: cf., therefore, Norman. It is under a cloud, not yet opaque. (I remember it—or am I confusing it with some similar name?—only in connexion with a grandiose poem recited in the early years of this century.)
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
A Teutonic name, meaning: Divine brightness.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Norbert Forename Popularity
Norbert Demographics
Norbert Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Sample size: 5 (1901)
Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Phonetically Similar Names
Norbert Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Norbert in the Russian language | ||
| Норберт | norbert | - |
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