Heribert
given name · German · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Heribert is a given name, most frequently recorded in Mexico. It appears chiefly in German and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old High German.
- SVEl Salvador1 in 1.6K◐
- MXMexico1 in 2K
- CLChile1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈26K ●
- Sources
- 301 ●
- 1 in 3.5K ◐
across 10 countries
386K records
Official registry-verified
Costa Rica
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Heriberto in MX Mexico, US United States, AR Argentina and 16 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
a male given name from Old High German
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #273 | 158,139 | 129K rec. | — | 668 | Heriberto | 173 |
| AR Argentina | #704 | 62,131 | 44K rec. | — | 28 | Heriberto | 57 |
| VE Venezuela | #585 | 42,202 | 19K rec. | — | 7.3K | Heriberto | 37 |
| CL Chile | #320 | 35,904 | 1.3K rec. | — | 1 | Heriberto | 65 |
| DE Germany | #585 | 25,085 | 23K rec. | — | 1 | Heribert | 120 |
| US United States | — | 18,929 | 94K rec. | 1 in 18K | 19K | Heriberto | 301 |
| SV El Salvador | #186 | 17,210 | 14K rec. | — | — | Heriberto | 30 |
| PE Peru | — | 12,890 | 11K rec. | — | — | Heriberto | 43 |
| PY Paraguay | #243 | 8,118 | 4.7K rec. | — | — | Heriberto | 26 |
| EC Ecuador | #753 | 2,665△ | 293 rec. | 1 in 6.3K | 2.7K | Heriberto | 34 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1,440 | 4.5K rec. | 1 in 3.5K | 1.4K | — | 36 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,375 | 2.9K rec. | 1 in 36K | 1.4K | Heriberto | 85 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- German27K78%
- Spanish2.7K8%
- English1.8K5%
- Portuguese5412%
- French3561%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| German | 27,040 | 78% |
| Spanish | 2,737 | 8% |
| English | 1,759 | 5% |
| Portuguese | 541 | 2% |
| French | 356 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Heribert is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Heribert < hari ‘Heer’ + beraht ‘glänzend’; Belege: Heribertus, Herbordus, Herburt, Herbord, Herbort.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
German: historical form of HERBERT , currently undergoing a modest revival.
as a word
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 20 |
| 2000 | 19 |
| 2001 | 20 |
| 2002 | 20 |
| 2003 | 18 |
| 2004 | 18 |
| 2005 | 19 |
| 2006 | 19 |
| 2007 | 17 |
| 2008 | 17 |
| 2009 | 17 |
| 2010 | 14 |
| 2011 | 13 |
| 2012 | 12 |
| 2013 | 12 |
| 2014 | 12 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 12 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2018 | 11 |
| 2019 | 10 |
| 2020 | 10 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Caribert of Laonb. 696not in their usual nameCount of Laon
- Heribert of Cologneb. 970DEArchbishop of Cologne
- Ferdinand Heribert von Galenb. 1831DEpolitician (1831-1906)
- Heribert Beisselb. 1933DEGerman musician (1933–2021)
- Heribert Faßbenderb. 1941DEGerman sports journalist
- Heribert Sasseb. 1945ATAustrian actor (1945-2016)
- Heribert Metzgerb. 1950ATAustrian musician, organist and music educator
- Heribert Prantlb. 1953DEGerman journalist and author
- Heribert Schulmeyerb. 1954DEGerman illustrator
- Heribert Weberb. 1955ATAustrian footballer
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●
Attested in 31 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 98 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Heribert?
- We estimate roughly 26 thousand people bear Heribert (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Heribert have the most bearers?
- Heribert is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled heriberto.
- How common is Heribert compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Heribert is the 273rd most common given name of 191,605 given names recorded there.
- Is Heribert a male or female name?
- Heribert 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 does the name Heribert mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old High German
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Heribert” — the 273rd most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.