Albert
Albert is ranked 606th among boys in 2024 (467 births). Its best rank was 14th, in 1910.
- Rank in 2024
- #606down 18 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4670.03% of boys
- Peak year
- 192110,158 births
- Best rank
- #14in 1910
- Since 1880
- 493,950people given the name
The story in the numbers
491,391 boys have been named Albert in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 10,158 births — 0.92% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 467 births in 2024, against 10,158 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 87 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,559 girls have also been given it, 0.52% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Albert | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 14,375 | |
| 1890s | 13,753 | |
| 1900s | 15,318 | |
| 1910s | 68,207 | |
| 1920s | 94,432 | |
| 1930s | 62,827 | |
| 1940s | 60,276 | |
| 1950s | 52,835 | |
| 1960s | 36,376 | |
| 1970s | 22,111 | |
| 1980s | 18,502 | |
| 1990s | 13,933 | |
| 2000s | 9,107 | |
| 2010s | 6,880 | |
| 2020s | 2,459 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Albert was the 20th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Albert
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Walterpeak 1918
- Lymanpeak 1917
- Harmonpeak 1921
- Horacepeak 1921
- Arthurpeak 1921
- Millardpeak 1922
- Elbertpeak 1920
- Lewispeak 1921
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.