Hilbert
Recorded 1900–1998 · United States
Hilbert was most popular in 1922, when 83 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,483 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,020 people named Hilbert.
Hilbert over time
How old is the name Hilbert?
Hilbert first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1900, which makes it about 125 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 79 of the 126 years since. It was last recorded in 1998.
How many people are named Hilbert?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,020 American births named Hilbert between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 410 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Hilbert in 2025?
Hilbert was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Hilbert a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Hilbert is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 2,020 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Hilbert?
Roughly 410 Americans named Hilbert are alive today — 20% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 71 years old, and half are between 60 and 81.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Hilbert is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org