Adelbert
Masculine · “noble and bright”
Adelbert is Albert with its first element restored — noble and bright, two of the most productive words in Germanic naming, in their fuller and older form.
How old is the name Adelbert?
Adelbert was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Adelbert alive today was born around 1925, making them about 100 years old. About 500 people named Adelbert are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Adelbert most popular?
Adelbert peaked in 1880, reaching #320 nationally. See the whole 1880 chart.
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Where it comes from
From adal beraht to Adelbert
The story of Adelbert
Adalbert of Prague was a tenth-century bishop and missionary, martyred among the Prussians and one of the patron saints of Poland and Bohemia. The name was standard in German and Central European use, and German emigration brought Adelbert to America, where it appears in nineteenth-century records and peaked around 1885.
Meaning
noble and bright
From the Germanic adal, 'noble', and beraht, 'bright' or 'famous'. Albert is the contracted form; Adelbert keeps the full first element. Both elements are ordinary words and the compound is transparent and undisputed across the whole Germanic family.
How the name formed
- adal beraht
- Adalbert
- Adelbert
Related forms: Adalbert · Albert · Vojtěch
Pronouncing Adelbert
AD-ul-burt
Three syllables, stress on the first. German says AH-dal-bert with the same stress.
Nicknames for Adelbert
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most boys named
- 191665 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #320reached in 1880
- Change vs 1992
- −50.0%5 in 1995, from 10
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Adelbert in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Adalbert in German — spelling variant
- Albert in English — related form
- Vojtěch in Czech — related form
Adelberts among us
people named Adelbert are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Adelbert sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The meaning is transparent, undisputed and unusually good.
- A documented tenth-century missionary bishop stands behind it.
- Del and Bert are two short forms at very different registers.
- Albert is much the commoner form and will often be substituted.
- Three syllables and a spelling that has to be dictated.
- It is strongly period-coded to the nineteenth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Adelberts are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Adelbert are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Adelbert in 2025?
- Adelbert is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
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- Adelbert will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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