Herbert

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Herbert is both a male first name and a family name . The rare female form of the first name is Herberta .

Origin and meaning

Herbert is an old Germanic two-part personal name, particularly common by the name of St. Heribert of Cologne , Archbishop of Cologne (10th / 11th century.) The name Herbert , also Heribert , was created from the combination of the Old High German words "heri" for army , Warrior and “beraht” for shiny, radiant, famous.

distribution

The name Herbert was a popular first name in Germany at the end of the 19th century. His popularity only increased, so that he was often among the ten most common boy names of the corresponding year in the 1910s and 1920s. Then it became less widespread and fell sharply in the late 1950s. The name has hardly been used since the late sixties.

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See also

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  1. ↑ Statistics on "Popular first names"