Albert

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Albert

Gender: Masculine
Language: English and French
Etymology:
Albert is the modern English form the Old Germanic names Adalbert (or Adelbert), or the Old English name Aethelbert, (or Aethelberht, or Ethelbert) . Originally it meant “Noble Bright” from “adal” or “aethel” (noble) and “berht” (bright).

History:
Albert (though present) was never very common during the Middle Ages or afterwards, lasting in rural England until the 17th century (as Halbert).

In the 19th century, Albert was reintroduced to England via Germany and the German connections of the royal family, especially when Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1840.

It was especially popular among the lower classes of Britain.

Albert has declined in the 20th century.

In the United States, the most common diminutive is “Al.” In Britain, it was “Bert.”

Pronunciation: AL-bert.

Diminutives: Al, Albie, Alby, Bert.
Hungarian: Bela.

Alternates:
English: Alburt, Elbert, Halbert, Adalbert, Adelbert, Halbert.
French: Aubert.
German: Albrecht.
Hawaiian: Alapaki.
Italian: Alberto.
Latin: Albertus.
Polish: Olbracht.
Scottish Gaelic: Ailbert, Ailbeart.
Spanish: Alberto, Adalberto.

Surnames:
English: Albright, Alberts, Albertson.
French: Auber, Aube, Aubey.
German (Low): Aber, Abert, Allebrach.

Feminine: Alberta.

See also: Alberto, Bert, Bertie.

Famous Bearers:
Artists and Authors:
Albrecht Moravia (1471-1528)
German painter.
Albrecht Altdorfer (1480-1538)
German painter.
Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838)
German lyricist.
Albert Lortzing (1801-1851)
German composer.
Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868)
Austrian writer.
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)
American artist.
Albert-Alexandre Glatigny (1839-1873)
French poet.
Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847-1917)
American painter.
Albert Bartholomé (1848-1928)
French sculptor.
Albrecht Rodenbach (1856-1880)
Flemish poet.
Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin (1862-1901)
American composer.
Albert Verwey (1865-1937)
Dutch poet.
Albert Payson Terhune (1872-1942)
American novelist.
Albert Siklós (Albert Schönwald) (1878-1942)
Hungarian cellist.
Albert Carrier-Belleuse (1884-1887)
French sculptor.
Albert Steffen (1884-1963)
Swiss novelist.
Albert Spalding (1888-1953)
American composer.
Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897-1966)
German photographer.
Albert Namatjira (1902-1959)
Australian painter.
Albert-Charles Simonin (1905-1980)
French writer.
Albert Hardy (1913-1995)
British photojournalist.
Albert King (1923-1992)
American musician.
Albert Mangelsdorff (1928-)
German jazz musician.

Educators, Scholars, and Social Workers:
Albert of Aix (1316-1390)
Historian of the First Crusade.
Albert of Saxony (1316-1390)
German philosopher.
Adalbert Kuhn (1812-1881)
German linguist.
Albrecht Ritschl (1822-1889)
German theologian.
Albert Schäffle (1931-1903)
German economist.

Miscellaneous:
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
American editor.
Albert William Stevens (1886-1949)
American balloonist and aerial photographer.
Albert Ball (1896-1917)
British fighter pilot of World War I.
Albert Anastasia (1902-1957)
American gangster.

Places:
Albert Canal
Belgium.
Albert Nile
Uganda.
Lake Albert
Africa.
Prince Albert
Saskatchewan, Canada.

Political Figures:
Count Albrecht von Bernstorff (1809-1873)
Prussian statesman.
Albert L’ourvrier (Alexander Martin) (1815-1895)
French politician.
Gróf Albert Apponyi (1846-1933)
Hungarian statesman.
Albert Bacon Fall (1861-1944)
American politician. First to be convicted while actively holding a Cabinet position.
Albert Lebrun (1871-1950)
Last president of the Third Republic of France.
Albert Sarraut (1872-1962)
Governor-general of Indochina.
Albert John Luthuli (1898-1967)
President of the African National Congress.
Albert Reynolds (1932-)
Prime Minister of Ireland (1992-1994).
Albert Arnold Gore (1948-)
Vice President of the United States (1993-2001) and presidential candidate (2000).

Religious Figures:
Saint Adalbert (956-997)
A bishop of Prague.
Saint Albertus Magnus (St. Albert the Great) (1200-1280)
Called the Universal Doctor, he studied nature and science.

Royalty:
Adalbert (?-966)
An early Italian king.
Adalbert (1000-1072)
A German prince and archbishop.
Albert I (1100-1170)
Called Albert the Bear (Albrecht der Bär). Margrave of Brandenburg.
Albert I (1255-1308)
Duke of Austria and German king.
Albert II (1397-1439)
German king, King of Hungary, King of Bohemia, Duke of Luxembourg.
Albert III Achilles (1414-1486)
Elector of Brandenburg.
Albert II of Saxony (1443-1500)
Duke of Saxony.
Albert of Brandenburg (Albrecht von Brandenburg) (1490-1545)
Margrave of of Brandenburg
Albert II Alcibiades (1522-1557)
Margrave of Brandenburg.
Albert VII (1559-1621)
Archduke of Austria, and the Spanish Netherlands.
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1819-1861)
Prince Consort to Queen Victoria. It was his ideas of decorum and morality which shaped the “Victorian” Age.
King Albert of Saxony (1828-1902)
A popular ruler.
Prince Albert Grimaldi of Monaco (1848-1922)
Amateur oceanographer.
King Albert I of Belgium (1975-1934)
Led the country during World War I.
Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria (1905-1996)
Head of the House of Wittelsbach.
King Albert II of Belgium (1934-)
Current king of Belgium.

Scientists:
Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777)
Swiss biologist.
Albrecht von Gräfe (1828-1870)
German founder of modern ophthalmology.
Albert Heim (1849-1937)
Swiss geologist.
Albrecht Kossel (1953-1927)
German biochemist. Winner of the 1910 for Physiology or Medicine.
Albert Calmette (1863-1933)
French bacteriologist.
Albert Sauveur (1863-1939)
Belgian-American metallurgist.
Albert Hoyt Taylor (1874-1961)
American physicist.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
German-American physicist. Formed the Theory of Relativity and won the Nobel Prize of 1921 for Physics.
Albert Wallace Hull (1880-1966)
American physicist.
Albert Claude (1898-1983)
Belgian-American cytologist.
Albert F. Frey-Wyssling (1900-)
Swiss botanist.

Singers and Entertainers:
Albert Chevalier (1861-1923)
English actor.
Albert Bassermann (1867-1952)
German actor.
Albert LaRue (1917-1996)
American actor.

Popularity:
Percentage from the 1990 U.S. Census:
0.314 % named Albert
0.053 % named Alberto
0.023 % named Al
0.022 % named Bert
0.022 % named Elbert
0.005 % named Adalberto

Popularity of Albert:
Popularity (for newborns):
In the United States...
1800: 76th most popular.
1850: 20th most popular.
1875: 13th most popular.
1900-1910: 16th most popular.
1910-1920: 18th most popular.
1920-1930: 21st most popular.
1930-1940: 32nd most popular.
1940-1950: 48th most popular.
1950-1960: 76th most popular.
1960-1970: 103rd most popular.
1970-1980: 123rd most popular.
1980-1990: 147th most popular.
1990: 173rd most popular.
1991: 191st most popular.
1992: 209th most popular.
1993: 212th most popular.
1994: 214th most popular.
1995: 220th most popular.
1996: 230th most popular.
1997: 247th most popular.
1998: 262nd most popular.
1999: 264th most popular.
2000: 282nd most popular.
2001: 276th most popular.
2002: 296th most popular.
2003: 311th most popular.

In Britian...
1850: 21st most popular.
1875: 12th most popular.
1900: 10th most popular.
1925: 11th most popular.
1950: N/A (not in the top fifty)

In France...
1900: 14th most popular.
1910: 15th most popular.
1920: 15th most popular.
1930: 23rd most popular.
1940: 29th most popular.
1950: 56th most popular.
1960: 88th most popular.
1970: 185th most popular.
1980-2000: N/A

Popularity of Al:
Popularity (for newborns):
In the United States...
1900-1910: 411th most popular.
1910-1920: 457th most popular.
1920-1930: 537th most popular.
1930-1940: 458th most popular.
1940-1950: 446th most popular.
1950-1960: 399th most popular.
1960-1970: 515th most popular.
1970-1980: 692nd most popular.
1980-2000: N/A

Popularity of Elbert:
Popularity (for newborns):
In the United States...
1875: 165th most popular.
1900-1910: 202nd most popular.
1910-1920: 174th most popular.
1920-1930: 198th most popular.
1930-1940: 236th most popular.
1940-1950: 328th most popular.
1950-1960: 441st most popular.
1960-1970: 560th most popular.
1970-1980: 706th most popular.
1980-2000: N/A

Popularity of Adalbeto:
Popularity (for newborns):
In the United States...
1900-1940: N/A
1940-1950: 722nd most popular.
1950-1960: 773rd most popular.
1960-1970: 725th most popular.
1970-1980: 863rd most popular.
1980-1990: 891st most popular.
1990: 881st most popular.
1991: 871st most popular.
1992: 841st most popular.
1993: 920th most popular.
1994: N/A
1995: 984th most popular.
1996: N/A