Proper noun

1. . In modern use partly transferred back from the surname.

Quotations

• ~1593 William Shakespeare: Richard III: Act V, Scene III:

  And you, Sir Walter Herbert, stay with me.

• 1989 David Leavitt: Equal Affections. ISBN 0-670-821977 page 215:

  Herbert, Sydney, Milton, Seymour. You know, all the time I was growing up I thought those were the most ordinary Jewish first names, until someone pointed out that they were British last names. I guess to my great-grandparents those names must have sounded so modern, so sophisticated, so - non-Eastern European. And now they're just Uncle Miltie, Uncle Sy, Uncle Herb. Do other people have Uncle Donne and Uncle Wordsworth?

Proper noun

1. , cognate to Herbert.

Proper noun

1. , cognate to English Herbert; a saint's name from a medieval bishop of Cologne.

Proper noun

1. , cognate to English Herbert.