Gilberto
Where Gilberto comes from
Gilberto hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
- Vowel-ended
Along the way
- 1903First appearance#1,009 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 1942Gilberto Gil bornBrazilian recording artist, singer, guitarist, songwriter and politician
- 1976Gilberto Silva bornBrazilian footballer
- 1981Peak, #383446 babies named Gilberto — more than any year before or since.
- 2013The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births — down to #943.
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Gilberto Silva · Brazilian footballer, born 1976
- Gilberto Gil · Brazilian recording artist, singer, guitarist, songwriter and politician, born 1942
- Gilberto Ribeiro Gonçalves · Brazilian association football player, born 1980
- Gilberto Carlos Nascimento · Brazilian association football player, born 1966
- Gilberto da Silva Melo · Brazilian association football player, born 1976
Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.