Norbert is a boy's name of German origin meaning “north and bright.” In 2024 it was given to 14 boys in the United States.
Norbert at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
German · French · Scandinavian
Meaning
“north and bright”
About the name Norbert
Norbert belongs to the German and French tradition. Its meaning — “north and bright” — is the sense carried by its German roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Norbert first appears in Social Security records in 1885. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #207 in 1922, and in 2024 14 babies received the name — 20,377 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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