Albert

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Albert boys named Albert

By the numbers

Total US births

494,420

Estimated living today

172,000

Median age today

61

Peak year

1921

Best rank

20th

Rank in 2025

614th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

2,559 / 491,861

How old the living Alberts are

born that year still alive today

Of the 494,420 babies given the name since 1880, about 172,000 are alive — 35 in every hundred. Roughly 11,000 of them are children and 76,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1964 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Germanic languages

From Old English Æþelbeorht, from Proto-West Germanic *Aþalaberht, a compound of *aþalaz (“noble”) + *berhtaz (“bright, famous”), or from Old French Albert, from Latin Albertus, itself from the Germanic name. Regardless of the exact route, it is. It became popular in 19th-century England due to Queen Victoria’s consort, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Alberts

• Albert Einstein (1879–1955)German-born theoretical physicist
• Albert Camus (1913–1960)French philosopher, author, and journalist
• Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965)French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher
• Albert Abraham Michelson (1852–1931)American physicist
• Albert II, Prince of Monaco (born 1958)Prince of Monaco
• Albert Speer (1905–1981)German Nazi architect, Government Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany and convicted Nazi War Criminal
• Albert II of Belgium (born 1934)sixth king of the Belgians
• Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893–1986)Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937

People named Albert with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Albert is most common

• NY45,219
• PA40,752
• CA34,995
• TX28,199
• IL20,709
• OH18,652
• MA18,205
• NJ17,837
• MI14,108
• LA13,019

Relative to how many babies each state records, Albert is most concentrated in Rhode Island (2.5×), Hawaii (1.9×), Mississippi (1.7×), Pennsylvania (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1921

The most popular boys’ names the year Albert peaked:

• John
• Robert
• William
• James
• Charles
• George

All the names of 1921

Albert elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Albert: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Albert is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.03% of children were given it – 44 of them.

Albert: rank by region

In 2025, Albert was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.

In 2013, Albert was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Albert was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Albert appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (153rd).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Albert by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Albert among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Among boys in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 5,505 who carry it, 1,038 go by it.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Albert lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 33,666 men called Albert were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 46 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 6 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Alberta
• Alberto
• Alba
• Albertha
• Albina
• Albin
• Albertine
• Albino
• Albertina
• Alban
• Albany
• Albion

Albert against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Albert vs Alberta
• Albert vs Alberto
• Albert vs Alba
• Albert vs Albertha
• Albert vs Albina
• Albert vs Albin

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