# Albert (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/albert/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “noble”, “bright”, “famous” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈæl.bɚt/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | Abbey, Abby, Albie, Abbie |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 494,420 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 491,861 / 2,559 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 16,693, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

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 a doublet of Ethelbert. It became popular in 19th-century England due to Queen Victoria’s consort, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

## What it means

Albert is grouped under famous, light and noble.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 14 | 4,888 |
| 1984 | 11 | 5,907 |
| 1985 | 12 | 5,681 |
| 1986 | 17 | 4,541 |
| 1987 | 19 | 4,284 |
| 1988 | 11 | 6,676 |
| 1989 | 11 | 6,965 |
| 1990 | 8 | 9,265 |
| 1991 | 5 | 13,198 |
| 1992 | 10 | 8,079 |
| 1993 | 7 | 10,620 |
| 1994 | 7 | 10,603 |
| 1995 | 10 | 8,095 |
| 1996 | 7 | 10,596 |
| 2004 | 6 | 14,239 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 725 | 392 |
| 2012 | 725 | 402 |
| 2013 | 697 | 422 |
| 2014 | 697 | 434 |
| 2015 | 695 | 441 |
| 2016 | 644 | 476 |
| 2017 | 718 | 432 |
| 2018 | 660 | 453 |
| 2019 | 622 | 472 |
| 2020 | 547 | 523 |
| 2021 | 504 | 563 |
| 2022 | 456 | 613 |
| 2023 | 487 | 587 |
| 2024 | 469 | 607 |
| 2025 | 461 | 614 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 493 | 130 |
| 2012 | 579 | 109 |
| 2013 | 633 | 99 |
| 2014 | 778 | 84 |
| 2015 | 933 | 72 |
| 2016 | 1,028 | 64 |
| 2017 | 1,066 | 59 |
| 2018 | 1,264 | 55 |
| 2019 | 1,228 | 55 |
| 2020 | 1,148 | 57 |
| 2021 | 1,091 | 58 |
| 2022 | 1,008 | 57 |
| 2023 | 982 | 55 |
| 2024 | 915 | 57 |
| 2025 | 884 | 57 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: أَلْبِرْت
- Armenian: Ալբերտ
- Catalan: Albert
- Chinese: 艾伯特, 阿爾伯特 /阿尔伯特
- Czech: Albert
- Danish: Albert
- Dutch: Albert
- Esperanto: Alberto
- Estonian: Albert
- Finnish: Pertti
- French: Albert
- Georgian: ალბერტი
- German: Albert, Edlerbrecht
- Greek: Άλβέρτος, Άλμπερτ
- Hebrew: אַלְבֶּרט
- Hungarian: Albert
- Icelandic: Aðalbjartur
- Irish: Ailbhe
- Italian: Alberto
- Japanese: アルバート

## People named Albert

- Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
- Albert Camus, French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
- Albert Schweitzer, French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher (1875-1965)
- Albert Abraham Michelson, American physicist (1852–1931)
- Albertus Magnus, German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
- Albert Speer, German Nazi architect, Government Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi German
- Albert Fert, French physicist, Nobel laureate in physics
- Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Consort of Queen Victoria from 1840 to 1861 (1819–1861)
- Albert Lebrun, 15th President of the French Republic (1871–1950)
- Albert Finney, British actor (1936–2019)
- Albert Bandura, Canadian psychologist (1925–2021)
- Albert Claude, Belgian-American cell biologist (1899–1983)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.