girls:
70.3k births since 1880
#468 (92nd percentile)
boys:
399 births since 1900
#4187 (9th percentile)
overall:
70.7k births since 1880
#861 (89th percentile)
The name Alberta is the #861 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 70,743 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 88.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #468 (91.8% percentile) for all time with 70,344 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,187 (8.6% percentile) for all time with 399 births since 1900.
Alberta has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1900 for boys).
The name Alberta has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Alberta reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 79.9% percentile (ranked #120) with 1,717 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 2,005 births per million (ranked 74.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Alberta ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 0.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Alberta reached its peak popularity in 1932, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #519) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 51 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alberta".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Alberta. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.1% confident that Alberta is pronounced as al-BER-tuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ahl-BER-tuh, at 16.3% confidence, with 3 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 AE0 L B ER1 T AH0) 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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