Guilbert Name Origin and Family Crest

Here is a quick, evidence-based look at the Guilbert surname. In the 2010 US Census, 638 Americans gave Guilbert as their last name (rank 35,294). That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames. French civil records give 17,243 births under the name Guilbert from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1951–1960. Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Guilbert, so we research it family by family rather than guess.

Guilbert is catalogued in Wikidata as a French last name.

If a Guilbert family bore arms, our report explains whose they were and what the blazon shows. Research your Guilbert family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.