Humberto

Where Humberto comes from

Humberto 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
  1. 1900
    Humberto Castelo Branco born
    Brazilian military leader and politician; former President of Brazil
  2. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,392 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1981
    Humberto Suazo born
    Chilean footballer
  4. 1990
    Peak, #513
    371 babies named Humberto — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,090.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Humberto Castelo Branco · Brazilian military leader and politician; former President of Brazil, 1900–1967
  • Humberto Suazo · Chilean footballer, born 1981
  • Humberto Maschio · Italian-Argentine football player and manager, 1933–2024
  • Humberto Maturana · Chilean biologist and philosopher, 1928–2021
  • Humberto Delgado · Portuguese politician, 1906–1965

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.