Adalbert

Boys' name

Noble + bright, illustrious

Adalbert has been given to 94 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Adalbert, 1935

1 in 418,000

Adalbert over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adalbert: meaning, origin, and history

Noble + bright, illustrious

Old High German

What Adalbert means

Adalbert means “noble + bright, illustrious”, associated with adal and bert.

Origin, language, and formation

Adalbert is used in Catalan, German and Middle High German. Its origins include Old High German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Albert and Adelbert.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Adalbert is pronounced /ˈaːdalbɛʁt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 94 boys were recorded with the name Adalbert between 1914 and 1935. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1915; its best national rank was #2,183 in 1915.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Adalbert?

Adalbert had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1935, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1935: 1 in 418,000; 5 of 2,089,888 births
Among boys only: 1 in 208,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1935: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 289,721 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Adalbert sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1935 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 289,721 children born in 1935 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adalbert. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adalberts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adalbert was born before 1921 — so the typical Adalbert is around 104 today.

Median birth year: 1921; About 104 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 44.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 44.7% of all recorded uses (42).

Is Adalbert rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1915 (12)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 30.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,183; 1915

Spellings of Adalbert

Adalbert is not the most common spelling — Albert is, with 89.8% against Adalbert's 0.02%.

Albert89.8%491,861
Delbert8.6%46,930
Adalberto0.85%4,633
Adelbert0.43%2,373
Halbert0.21%1,137
Talbert0.15%826
Adalbert0.02%94

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Adalbert around the world

Where Adalbert ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

France
1900–2003
#3,939
in 2003

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Adalbert by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,183; 1915
Peak year: 1915; 12 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 1935
All-time count: 94
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Adalbert

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Adarrius Adahir Adarryll Adarious Adarryl Adaiah Adaryll Adarion Adarian Cuthbert Adalid Adar Bookert Adante Clebert Adarius Adarsh Harbert Hubbert Melbert Adarien Hulbert Seibert Willbert

Sibling names for Adalbert

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Hettie Catharine

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Hyman Regis

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