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Alberto vs Albirta

American parents have registered 63,259 Albertos since 1880, against 190 Albirtas. Alberto is still ahead, with 301 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alberto against Albirta, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alberto Albirta

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 136 years in which either name was published, Alberto for 135 years and Albirta for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Alberto Albirta
Total US births 63,259190
Most in one year 1,43510
Babies in 2025 301under 5
Estimated living today 55,0002
Median age today 3391
Peak year 19911905
Best rank 218th boys1,238th girls
Rank in 2025 819thunranked
First recorded 18821897
Girls / boys 447 / 62,812190 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Albirtas alive today are over 91; half the Albertos are over 33. That is 58 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Alberto and Albirta.