girls:
2.6k births since 1882
#3421 (40th percentile)
boys:
490.9k births since 1880
#64 (99th percentile)
overall:
493.5k births since 1880
#132 (98th percentile)
The name Albert is the #132 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 493,469 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #64 (98.6% percentile) for all time with 490,910 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,421 (40.1% percentile) for all time with 2,559 births since 1882.
Albert has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1882 for girls).
The name Albert has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Albert reached its peak popularity in 1914, achieving the 96.9% percentile (ranked #15) with 10,159 births per million. The name was most common in 1883, with 13,301 births per million (ranked 92.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1913, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Albert ranks #505 for boys (44.6% percentile) with 263 births per million, which is 2.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Albert reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 12.8% percentile (ranked #526) with 66 births per million. The name was most common in 1883, with 92 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Albert".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Albert. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.7% confident that Albert is pronounced as AL-bert, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHL-bert, at 10.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 L B ER0 T) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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