Albertha
Feminine · “noble and bright”
Albert joins two of the most prestigious words in the Germanic naming stock: adal, noble, and beraht, bright. Both were used constantly and both are still visible in English — beraht is the ancestor of bright itself. Albertha adds a th where Alberta has a t, which makes a Latin ending look German.
How old is the name Albertha?
Albertha first appears in US birth records in 1882 — 143 years ago. The typical Albertha alive today was born around 1929, making them about 96 years old. About 1,400 people named Albertha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Albertha most popular?
Albertha peaked in 1904, reaching #474 nationally. See the whole 1904 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Adalberht to Albertha
The story of Albertha
Albert was a German name that England took twice: once in the Middle Ages, quietly, and again in the nineteenth century when Queen Victoria married a German prince of that name and it became enormously fashionable across the English-speaking world within a decade. The feminine forms followed immediately — Alberta, Albertine, Albertha — and a Canadian province was named for one of Victoria's daughters. The th in this spelling borrows the look of Bertha, which contains the same beraht element and legitimately spells it that way.
Meaning
noble and bright
Germanic adal means noble or of good family, and it opens Adelaide, Alice, Adolf and Albert; beraht means bright or shining, and it closes Robert, Herbert and Bertha. The derivation is not disputed. Compound names were assembled from valued elements rather than for a combined sense, but this pair happens to produce a coherent image, which is part of why it lasted.
How the name formed
- Adalberht
- Albert
- Alberta
- Albertha
Related forms: Alberta · Albertina · Albertine
Pronouncing Albertha
al-BUR-thuh
al-BUR-thuh, three syllables, stress in the middle, the th as in think. Alberta has a plain t and is said al-BUR-tuh, so the th is an audible change rather than a silent one — the two names sound different.
Nicknames for Albertha
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
- 1882
- Most girls named
- 1923140 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #474reached in 1904
- Change vs 1980
- −25.0%6 in 1987, from 8
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.
Albertha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alberta in German — same name
- Albertina in Italian — related form
- Albertine in French — related form
Alberthas among us
people named Albertha 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
Albertha 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
- Both Germanic elements are documented and the combination is genuinely coherent.
- Bertha and Bertie are both complete short forms in different registers.
- It descends from a name with a well-recorded royal history in two countries.
- Alberta is the standard spelling and this one is said differently, so it gets corrected in both directions.
- The name is very strongly associated with the oldest living generations.
- Bertha as a short form carries associations of its own that not everyone will want.
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- How many Alberthas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Albertha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Albertha in 2025?
- Albertha is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Albertha with classmates?
- Albertha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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