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Herb - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Herb

[ 1 syll. her(b), he-rb ] The boy name Herb is pronounced ERB or HHERB KEY. Herb's language of origin is Germanic and it is predominantly used in the English language. Herb is a short form of Herbert (English, French, and German).

Herb is an uncommon baby boy name. At the modest height of its usage in 1941, 0.005% of baby boys were given the name Herb. It had a ranking of #783 then. The baby name has seen a drop in popularity since then, and is of only sporadic use today. Within all boy names in its family, Herb was nonetheless the most frequently used in 2008.

Baby names that sound like Herb include Harb, Harv (English), Harve (English), Hervé (French), Harvey (English), Harvy (English), Herbie (English), Hervey (English), and Arif (English).

KEY: Pronunciation for Herb: ER as in "hurt (HH.ER.T)" ; B as in "be (B.IY)" ; HH as in "he (HH.IY)" ; ER as in "hurt (HH.ER.T)" ; B as in "be (B.IY)"


 
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