Albert

From Old English Æþelbeorht, from Proto-West Germanic *Aþalaberht, a compound of *aþalaz (“noble”) + *berhtaz (“bright, famous”), or from Old French Albert, from Latin Albertus, itself from the Germanic name. Regardless of the exact route, it is a doublet of Ethelbert. It became popular in 19th-century England due to Queen Victoria’s consort, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈælb.ət/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæl.bɚt/

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Albert (countable and uncountable, plural Alberts)

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
   • 1862, Alfred Tennyson, The Idylls of the King: Dedication::

     Thou noble Father of her Kings to be - - - / Dear to thy land and ours, a Prince indeed, / Beyond all titles, and a household name, / Hereafter, thro' all times, Albert the Good.

   • 1956, Eddie Condon, Thomas Sugrue, We Called it Music: A Generation of Jazz., Peter Davies, page 40:

     Helena was not flattered. "Albert just doesn't appreciate music," she said. They all called me Albert then. I thought it was a fine name; I like elegance.

   • 2000, Anne Enright, What Are You Like?, Random House, published 2001, →ISBN, page 85:

     Hogan, Byrne, O'Brien. She stopped at one name. Albert Delahunty — what Catholic in their right mind would call a child Albert?

   • 2019 July 4, James Carrier, “Mehrabian’s 7-38-55 Communication Model: It’s More Than Words”, in PeopleShift‎^[1], archived from the original on 7 August 2025:

     Based on research, Albert Mehrabian has concluded that only 7% of feelings and attitudes takes place through the words we use in spoken communications, while 38% takes place through tone and voice and the remaining 55% take place through body language.

2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
   • 2009 July 19, Lizette Alvarez, “Whee! Also, There’s a Net”, in The New York Times‎^[2], archived from the original on 26 November 2022:

     Pass the chalk. Dr. Levine was there with a friend and fellow psychiatrist (detect a pattern?), Alexa Albert, Coco’s mother, who squinted up into the sun as her daughter effortlessly sailed skyward. Dr. Albert is an acrophobe.

3. A commune in Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France.
4. A constituency in Belize
5. A city in Kansas.
6. A former rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada, now part of the Municipality of Two Borders.
7. A town in New South Wales.
8. A ghost town in Texas.
9. A locality in the Lachlan council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
10. A crater on the Moon

• pet forms: Al, Bert, Bertie
• variants: Ethelbert
• female given names: Alberta, Albertina, Albertine

• (crater) Albert (crater)

Albert (plural Alberts)

1. Synonym of Albert chain.

• balter, Balter, blater, Bartle, tabler, labret, Bartel, Tabler, bralet

Albert m

1. a male given name

Albert (definite accusative Alberti, plural Albertlər)

1. a transliteration of the English male given name Albert
   • 2018, Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson, Millətlər niyə tənəzzül edir, page 95:

     Bu ölkələrdə, güman ki, çox sayda potensial Bill Geytslər və bir, ya da iki Albert Eynşteyn var, amma onlar təhsil ala bilmədiyi və həyatda öz yerlərini tapmadığı üçün əkinçiliklə məşğul olmağa, ya da hərbi xidmətə getməyə məcburdurlar.

     There are probably many a potential Bill Gates and one or two Albert Einsteins in these countries, but they are forced to farm or join the military because they cannot get an education and find their place in life.

   • 2020, Nicat Tarverdiyev, İslam və Motivasiya, page 75:

     Unutmayın ki, bizim hər birimizin ixtiyarında olan zaman Mikelancelo, Leonardo Da Vinçi, Tomas Cefferson, Paster, Helen Keller, Albert Eynşteyn kimi dahi şəxsiyyətlərin sahib olduğu vaxt qədərdir.

     Remember that the time each of us has at our disposal is as much time as that of geniuses like Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, Pasteur, Helen Keller, Albert Einstein had.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əlˈβɛrt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əlˈbɛrt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [alˈbɛɾt]

Albert m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

From English Albert.

Albert

1. a male given name from English [in turn from the Germanic languages]

• Abet

• IPA^(key): [ˈalbɛrt]

Albert m anim

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

Albert m anim (female equivalent Albertová)

1. a male surname

• “Albert”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)
• Moldanová, Dobrava (2019), Naše příjmení [Our surnames] (in Czech), 5th edition, Prague: Agentura Pankrác, →ISBN, page 27

Albert

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

• female given name: Alberte

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑl.bərt/

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• Hyphenation: Al‧bert

Albert m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlb̥ert/, [ˈɑlb̥ertˑ]

Albert

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

Albert m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

Patronymics

• Albert's son: Albertsson
• Albert's daughter: Albertsdóttir

From Swedish Albert, from Old High German Adalbert (literally “noble and bright, shining with nobility”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlbert/, [ˈɑ̝lbe̞rt̪]
• Rhymes: -ɑlbert
• Syllabification^(key): Al‧bert
• Hyphenation^(key): Al‧bert

Albert

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

• Chiefly used as a middle name.

• Alpo, Pertti

• Albert is the 350^th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 1,001 male individuals (and as a middle name to 4,431 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• Aubert (rare)

• IPA^(key): /al.bɛʁ/

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Albert m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Albert
2. a surname originating as a patronymic

• pet forms: Bébert, Bertin
• feminine forms: Alberte, Albertine

• tabler

Contraction of Adalbert, from Old High German adal (“noble”) + beraht (“bright”).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈalbɛʁt/

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Albert m (proper noun, strong, genitive Alberts, plural Alberte or Alberts)

1. a male given name from Old High German^[1]

Albert m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Alberts or (with an article) Albert, feminine genitive Albert, plural Alberts)

1. a surname originating as a patronymic^[2]

• Albrecht, Adalbert, Adelbert, Bert, Brecht, Albertus

Transliterations

• Japanese: アルベルト (Aruberuto)
• → Chinese: 阿爾貝特 / 阿尔贝特 (Ā'ěrbèitè) (transliteration)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒlbɛrt]
• Rhymes: -ɛrt
• Hyphenation: Al‧bert

Albert

1. a male given name from the Germanic languages

Albert m (proper noun, genitive singular Alberts)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

Albert

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.bɛrt/

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• Rhymes: -albɛrt
• Syllabification: Al‧bert

Learned borrowing from Latin Albertus. Doublet of Albrecht.

Albert m pers (female equivalent Alberta)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Albert f

1. genitive plural of Alberta

• “Albert”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Borrowed from German Albert.

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Albert m (genitive/dative lui Albert)

1. a surname from German

• Iordan, Iorgu (1983), Dicționar al numelor de familie românești [A Dictionary of Romanian Family Names]‎^[4], Bucharest: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică

• IPA^(key): /albert/, [ˈalbert]
• Rhymes: -albert
• Hyphenation: Al‧bert

Albert m pers

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

• “Albert”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

First recorded in Sweden in 1283. Cognate with German and English Albert.

• IPA^(key): /¹albæʈ/

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Albert c (genitive Alberts)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

• pet form: Abbe
• female given name: Albertina