Umberto
An Italian name that stays rare in Poland: only about 60 men carry it, so most people here have never met one. Its root is Latin, from words for "bright warrior".
Umberto Pronunciation
Umberto is pronounced oom-BER-to (/umˈbɛrtɔ/).
What Umberto means
Where Umberto comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Umberto is the Italian form of a Latin name, and the sense attached to it is "bright warrior." The bright half is the older half. It points to something shining, and the warrior reading grew around it later.
Italy gave the name its famous bearers. Umberto I ruled as king from 1878 to 1900. Umberto Eco wrote `Il nome della rosa`, read in Polish as `Imię róży`. Umberto Boccioni painted with the Futurists in Milan. Each of these men put the name to work.
In the Italian calendar the onomastico for Umberto falls on 4 March, tied to Blessed Humbert of Savoy.
A Polish child called Umberto stands a little apart on the class register, one Italian name among the Piotrs and Jakubs. The name keeps its four crisp syllables and its plain meaning: bright warrior.
How many people are named Umberto
1 in 355770 men in Poland is named Umberto. 60 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4785 among male names.
Umberto as a middle name
Umberto is a first name for 60 men in Poland and a middle name for another 17, a 78/22 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2270th, between Tu (17) and Valerio (17).
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#2268 Trường17
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#2269 Tu17
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#2270 Umberto17
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#2271 Valerio17
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#2272 Vasileios17