Albertine
Feminine · “noble and bright”
Albertine has a whole volume of a novel to itself, and then most of another. Proust gave the name to the figure his narrator loves, imprisons, loses and then spends hundreds of pages failing to understand, and two of the seven parts of the work are named for her directly. Few names carry that much fiction.
How old is the name Albertine?
Albertine was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Albertine alive today was born around 1922, making them about 103 years old. About 400 people named Albertine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Albertine most popular?
Albertine peaked in 1883, reaching #517 nationally. See the whole 1883 chart.
Where it comes from
From Adalbert to Albertine
The story of Albertine
The Proust connection is the famous one and it is not comfortable: the character is described almost entirely through the jealousy of the man watching her, and the book is more honest about that than most readers expect. There is a gentler namesake. A rambling rose bred in France just after the First World War carries the name and is one of the most planted climbing roses in the world — vigorous, coppery-pink, ferociously thorny, and scented enough to be recommended for walls near windows. It flowers once, spectacularly, and then does nothing for the rest of the year, which is either a poor advertisement or an extremely apt one depending on how the novel is read.
Meaning
noble and bright
Two Germanic elements joined, with a French feminine ending added on the end. Both elements are well attested and the sense of each is secure, which is not true of every name of this shape.
How the name formed
- Adalbert
- Albert
- Albertine
Related forms: Albertine · Albertina · Albertina
Pronouncing Albertine
al-ber-TEEN
Three syllables with the weight at the back, as French requires. American speakers often front the stress to AL-ber-teen, and both are heard.
Nicknames for Albertine
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
- 191869 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #517reached in 1883
- Change vs 1973
- 0.0%6 in 1981, from 6
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.
Albertine in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Albertine in French — same name
- Albertina in German — same name
- Albertina in Italian — same name
Albertines among us
people named Albertine 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
Albertine 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 elements of the meaning are transparent once pointed out.
- It offers short forms from either end with completely different characters.
- It is genuinely uncommon while containing no difficult sound.
- It is long and the spelling will need giving letter by letter.
- Albertina is equally standard and will be substituted.
- The generation that used it in America is now very old.
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Frequently asked
- How many Albertines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Albertine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Albertine in 2025?
- Albertine is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Albertine with classmates?
- Albertine will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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