Albert
The story
Albert carries one of the deepest records on this site: about 94,000 American boys in the 1920s alone, and more than 477,000 across our fourteen decades. The name is Germanic Adalbert, noble and bright, from adal, noble, and beraht, bright, carried to England by the Normans and revived to enormous Victorian life by Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband. Its most famous modern bearer needs no introduction: Albert Einstein. After midcentury the name eased decade by decade, down to about 6,900 boys in the 2010s, and about 2,900 have arrived so far this decade, alongside a small girls' line that faded generations ago. It reads today the way Arthur and Theodore read a decade ago: a grandfather name one turn away from a full return.
Albert's name family
One shared root links 4 names across 2 languages.
Shared root: from Germanic Adalbert "noble and bright", revived across Europe and cemented by Victoria's consort
The constellation
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Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Albert peaked in the 1890s and the 1910s in nearly equal measure.
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Popularity in Brazil
9,784 people · the #1,746 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 20,833 · median age 22
Among people named Albert living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2000s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 696 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Albert
People given the name Albert in the United States span the generations: the middle half were born anywhere from 1950 to 1989. Age is the one thing the name won't tell you.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Albert deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Albert truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Albert fits with your family’s names and surname.
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