Alberta
Feminine · “noble and bright”
Alberta is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 70,365 girls against 399 boys since 1880.
Alberta is a feminine of Albert, and it is also a Canadian province — named in the nineteenth century for a princess whose fourth given name it was, which is a rare case of a name traveling from a person to a place and then back to people.
How old is the name Alberta?
Alberta was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Alberta alive today was born around 1924, making them about 101 years old. About 17,000 people named Alberta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alberta most popular?
Alberta peaked in 1910, reaching #104 nationally. Today it ranks #9457, 9,353 places below that high. See the whole 1910 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Adalbert to Alberta
The story of Alberta
Adalbert was a Frankish and Saxon name carried by saints and emperors, worn down in English to Albert and given an enormous boost in the nineteenth century by Queen Victoria's consort. Feminines followed everywhere: Alberta, Albertine, Albertina. One of Victoria's daughters carried Alberta among her names, and when the Canadian district was organized in 1882 it was named for her. The American women's name peaked around 1910.
Meaning
noble and bright
From the Germanic athal, 'noble', and beraht, 'bright'. Both elements were extremely productive in old Germanic naming — beraht also gives Bertha, Herbert and Robert — and the compound is transparent and undisputed.
How the name formed
- Adalbert
- Albert
- Alberta
Related forms: Alberta · Albertine · Albertina · Albertine
Pronouncing Alberta
al-BUR-tuh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Italian says al-BEHR-ta, with a fuller second vowel.
Nicknames for Alberta
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 girls named
- 19181,988 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #104reached in 1910
- Change vs 2022
- 0.0%10 in 2025, 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.
Alberta in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alberta in Italian — same name
- Albertine in French — related form
- Albertina in Spanish — related form
- Albertine in German — related form
Albertas among us
people named Alberta are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 160,727 born in 2025 was named Alberta
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Alberta sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Alberta beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Alberta in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is transparent and unambiguously positive in every language that uses it.
- It is standard in Italian as well as English, so it crosses borders unchanged.
- Albert stands behind it as a documented name reaching back to the Frankish court.
- The Canadian province is the first association for a great many people.
- It is period-coded to the turn of the last century in American ears.
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Frequently asked
- How many Albertas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 17,000 people named Alberta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Alberta in 2025?
- Alberta ranks #9457 among US girl names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Alberta?
- About 1 in every 160,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Alberta — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Alberta with classmates?
- Alberta will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Alberta
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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