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Albert

Boys' name · Early 20th-century perennial

Living in the US
~180,000 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#614 among boys
Births in 2025
461 494,420 since 1880
Typical age
62 years, median

Albert popularity over time

Albert rank by birth year, 1880–2025Albert ranked #16 in 1880 and #614 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #14, in 1910.#100#614best #14 in 191018901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Albert in 1921 than in any other year — 10,204 of them. It appears in the very first year SSA covers, 1880. Albert has spent 87 years inside the national top 100.

The 2025 position is #614, on 461 births. Over ten years the count has fallen 34%.

Babies named Albert per yearPeaks at 10,204 births in 1921.10,204 in 1921018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Albert?

About 180,000 people named Albert are alive in the United States today. That is out of 494,420 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Albert?

Median age among living Alberts: 62. Most living bearers were born in the 1950s. By the site’s era rules that makes Albert a early 20th-century perennial name.

Your Albert

Ages of living people named AlbertHalf of living Alberts are older than 62 and half younger.median 62020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Albert is most common

Albert is 1.9× as common in Massachusetts as it is nationally. New York, California and New Jersey follow.

Where Albert is used more than average5 states use the name Albert more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: 1.9× the national rateNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: 1.4× the national ratePANew Jersey: 1.6× the national rateNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: 1.8× the national rateCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: 1.9× the national rateMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Albert is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Massachusetts 164 1.9×
New York 537 1.9×
California 1,087 1.8×
New Jersey 197 1.6×
Pennsylvania 235 1.4×

Albert in England and Wales

ONS recorded 884 births named Albert in 2025, ranking it #57. That is 23% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Albert comes from

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.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Albert

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Albert Einstein German-born theoretical physicist 1879–1955 321
Albert Camus French philosopher, author, and journalist 1913–1960 205
Albert Schweitzer French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher 1875–1965 120
Albert A. Michelson American physicist 1852–1931 106
Albert II of Monaco Prince of Monaco 1958 89
Albert II of Belgium sixth king of the Belgians 1934 84
Albert Speer German Nazi architect, Government Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany and convicted Nazi War Criminal 1905–1981 84
Albert Szent-Györgyi Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 1893–1986 83
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The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 2,492 in 1911 to 4,601 in 1912 — 1.8 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

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