Alberto

96,609 people in America carry this name — ranked #564 of 923.

A name with a settled sense and a settled sound.

Say it al BUR toh

3 syllables · the capitals are the stressed part

Phonetic transcription

AE0 L B ER1 T OW0 — ARPAbet, as published in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The digit on a vowel marks its stress.

  • People counted 96,609 2020 Census
  • Per 100,000 32.0 about 1 in 3,431 people
  • As a surname 6,652 ranked #5,104 the other way round

What Alberto means and where it comes from

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.

Alberto name popularity by year

61,496 babies were given this name since 1882. The busiest year was 1991, with 1,435 of them.

80 90 00 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90s 00 10 20

Most people carrying it were born in the 1990s. 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 Alberto

Three syllables already, so a short middle name keeps the whole from running long.

Better avoided

  • Alberto Andrew — same opening
  • Alberto Adam — same opening
  • Alberto Aaron — 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

Alberto has more than halved in three decades. The people carrying it belong mostly to the Millennials.

Is Alberto a boy's or a girl's name?

99.8% men
226 women

As recorded on census returns, not as anyone thinks the name ought to be used.

Spellings of Alberto

Alberto is how 31% of them spell it — 309,059 people answer to the sound.

Each spelling is its own census entry — the counts never overlap, so the shares are of the group, not of the country.

Names about as common

The nearest entries above and below by number of people.

Where in America Alberto is thickest on the ground

In Texas the name is given 2.8 times as often as it is across the country.

  • Texas ×2.8
  • California ×2.8
  • Arizona ×2.3
  • New Mexico ×1.7
  • Nevada ×1.4

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.

This name in other languages

  • Albert Eng.|Fr.|Russ.|Pol
  • 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.

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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