Alberta
The girl's name Alberta has been in the national records since 1880, with 70,764 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 9,457th. About 16,000 Albertas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 75.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Alberta boys named Alberta
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 70,764
- Estimated living today
- 16,000
- Median age today
- 75
- Peak year
- 1919
- Best rank
- 120th
- Rank in 2025
- 9,457th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 70,365 / 399
How old the living Albertas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 70,764 babies given the name since 1880, about 16,000 are alive — 23 in every hundred. Roughly 170 of them are children and 12,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1950 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
. The province was named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Albertas
- Alberta Brianti (born 1980)Italian tennis player
- Alberta Santuccio (born 1994)Italian fencer
- Alberta Watson (1955–2015)Canadian actress
- Alberta Hunter (1895–1984)American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse
- Alberta Adams (1917–2014)American singer, musician
- Alberta Vaughn (1904–1992)actress
- Alberta Ferretti (born 1950)Italian fashion designer and costume department
- Alberta Williams King (1904–1974)mother of Martin Luther King, Jr.
People named Alberta with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Alberta is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Alberta is most concentrated in Mississippi (3.9×), South Carolina (2.8×), Alabama (2.3×), Arkansas (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1919
The most popular girls’ names the year Alberta peaked:
Alberta elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Alberta | 425 | 416th |
| Italy girls | Alberta | 299 | — |
| England and Wales girls | Alberta | 168 | 2,286th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Alberta among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Alberta | 4,511 | 12,532 |
| the Netherlands boys | Alberta | — | 82 |
| Finland girls | Alberta | — | 19 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Alberta lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 944 women called Alberta were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tarragona | Alberta | 51 | 0.117 | 735 |
| Cáceres | Alberta | 20 | 0.102 | 712 |
| León | Alberta | 23 | 0.100 | 772 |
| Palencia | Alberta | 7 | 0.088 | 783 |
| Girona | Alberta | 34 | 0.082 | 935 |
| Ávila | Alberta | 6 | 0.075 | 825 |
Listed in 38 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 14 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Alberta against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.