Albert
192,229 people in America carry this name — ranked #289 of 923.
Its American moment came before the war.
Say it AL burt
2 syllables · the capitals are the stressed part
Phonetic transcription
AE1 L B ER0 T — ARPAbet, as published in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The digit on a vowel marks its stress.
-
People counted 192,229 2020 Census
-
Per 100,000 63.6 about 1 in 1,724 people
-
As a surname 30,390 ranked #1,130 the other way round
Where Albert comes from and what it means
Teutonic in origin, reading literally as “nobly bright”.
Origins are a matter of scholarly argument rather than record, and a name can be traced more than one way. We state one reading and say where it came from.
Albert name popularity by year
491,999 babies were given this name since 1880. The busiest year was 1921, with 10,204 of them.
Most people carrying it were born in the 1920s. It has been given less often of late.
Counted from Social Security card applications, so it covers births registered in the United States and leaves out names given to fewer than five babies in a year.
Middle names for Albert
Two syllables sit with almost anything — the join matters more than the length.
- Albert Michael
- Albert John
- Albert James
- Albert David
- Albert Robert
- Albert William
- Albert Daniel
- Albert Joseph
Better avoided
- Albert Thomas — runs together
- Albert Andrew — same opening
- Albert Anthony — same opening
Chosen by sound from the pronouncing dictionary, then ordered by how often the name is given. None of it is a rule — the ear decides.
Going quiet
Albert has more than halved in three decades. The people carrying it belong mostly to the Greatest Generation.
Is Albert used for boys or for girls?
As recorded on census returns, not as anyone thinks the name ought to be used.
This name in other languages
- Alberto Italian
- Alberta English
- Aldebert Eng.|Ger
- Adalbert German
- Albertine German
- Albertino Italian
Forms of one name traced to the same root. Spellings are as the glossary printed them, so some look older than the versions in use today.
The states where Albert is most common
In New Mexico the name is given 2.1 times as often as it is across the country.
- New Mexico ×2.1
- Hawaii ×2.1
- Rhode Island ×1.7
- Mississippi ×1.7
- Louisiana ×1.7
Measured against the state's own share of births since 1960, so a small state can lead a big one. Counted from Social Security card applications.
Who has this name today
- White alone (non-Hispanic) — 56.0%
- Black or African American alone (non-Hispanic) — 15.9%
- Hispanic or Latino origin — 19.0%
- Two or more races — 2.1%
- Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone — 6.1%
- American Indian and Alaska Native alone — 1.0%
Categories are how people answered the census — a fact about the bearers, not a property of the name. Conclusions are ours, not the Census Bureau’s.
Spellings of Albert
Names about as common
The nearest entries above and below by number of people.
Try it Birth Plan Worksheet
Tick what matters, print it, hand it over. Nothing is stored anywhere.
Where this page gets its numbers
- Counts, ranks and shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census tabulations of first and last names occurring 100 or more times. Percentages, bands and groupings are our own arithmetic — the conclusions are ours, not the Bureau’s.
- Pronunciation, syllables and rhyme groups: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Carnegie Mellon University. The plain-English respelling is ours.
- Origins and the forms a name takes in other languages: Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names, 1884 — a public-domain work. Scholarship has moved on since, so read it as one reading of a name, not the last word.
Below a hundred people we publish no figure at all — the same threshold the Census Bureau applies to us. What each source covers
Other names of Teutonic origin