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Norbert

A Latin name, Norbertus at root, carried into Poland by the medieval Norbertine order and read as "bright north". Given only to boys, it was a steady pick through the 2000s but comes to fewer newborns each year now, though it still rings familiar.

Norbert Pronunciation

Norbert is pronounced NOR-bert (/ˈnɔrbɛrt/).

Alive in 2025
39,363
Newborns 2025
63
National rank
#215
Next name day
6 June
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What Norbert means

Where Norbert comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Norbert reached Polish records in its Latin form, Norbertus. The short meaning given for it is bright north, two small ideas that sit oddly together and lodge in the memory.

Norbert of Xanten carried the name through the twelfth century. Around 1120 he founded the Premonstratensian order, and his followers reached Poland as the Norbertine canons and sisters. Their convent still stands at Zwierzyniec in Kraków, above the Vistula.

The name keeps a place on the June calendar, marked on the sixth for Saint Norbert. A boy called Norbert notices this early, when the imieniny list is read and his day comes round while other children wait for theirs. His name sits alone in a class register full of Jakubs and Szymons.

The meaning stays plain. Bright north, worn without fuss.

When Norbert celebrates name day

Norbert appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 6 June.

Next name day
6 June
Sunday in 2027
Next one in 269 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

How many people are named Norbert

1 in 542 men in Poland is named Norbert. 39,363 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #215 among male names.

People with the name Norbert 2019 → 2025
39,363 -784 since 2019
2020 40,118 -29
2021 39,980 -138
2022 39,835 -145
2023 39,704 -131
2024 39,546 -158
2025 39,363 -183

Norbert's popularity over time

63 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #313 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #215 name among living men, even as it slips to #313 among newborns.

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63 newborns with the name Norbert in 2025
national rank #313 that year

Where Norbert is most popular

Norbert is most popular in Pomeranian, 41% above the national average (57 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+38%) and Warmian-Masurian (+37%). It is least common in West Pomeranian and Lower Silesian, 44% and 42% below average respectively.

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Norbert as a middle name

Norbert is a first name for 39,363 men in Poland and a middle name for another 15,663, a 72/28 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 93rd, between Feliks (15,986) and Edmund (14,569).

As a first name
39,363
As a middle name
15,663
first name 72% middle name 28%
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