Talbert
Masculine · “Bright”
Talbert stands beside Talbot, and a talbot was a dog — a white hunting hound that took its name from the family that kept it, and then gave the name back to English as a common noun.
How old is the name Talbert?
Talbert first appears in US birth records in 1910 — 115 years ago. The typical Talbert alive today was born around 1946, making them about 79 years old. About 400 people named Talbert are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Talbert most popular?
Talbert peaked in 1910, reaching #1314 nationally. See the whole 1910 chart.
Where it comes from
From Talbot to Talbert
The story of Talbert
The hound is documented from the Middle Ages: white, heavy-headed, slow and famous for scent rather than speed, and it appears on inn signs across England because it appeared first on a noble family's arms. The breed is extinct and is usually named as an ancestor of the bloodhound. What makes it worth knowing is the direction of travel — a surname became a dog, the dog became an ordinary English word, and the word outlived the animal. Very few family names have ever managed the same trip, and none of the others did it through a kennel.
Meaningscholars disagree
Bright, on one of two readings
It may be a variant of Talbot, itself a Norman family name of uncertain origin, or a Germanic compound ending in the element meaning bright. The two explanations cannot be separated in the American record.
How the name formed
- Talbot
- Talbert
Pronouncing Talbert
TAL-burt
Two syllables, stress at the front.
Nicknames for Talbert
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1910
- Most boys named
- 195418 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1314reached in 1910
- Change vs 1993
- 0.0%5 in 2019, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Talberts among us
people named Talbert are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Talbert sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is read correctly on sight with nothing difficult in it.
- Both halves work as short forms.
- It sounds established rather than invented.
- Talbot and Tolbert are both nearby and his will be written as one of them.
- The origin has two accounts and neither is settled.
- The name belongs firmly to one American period.
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Frequently asked
- How many Talberts are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Talbert are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Talbert in 2025?
- Talbert is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Talbert with classmates?
- Talbert will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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