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Adelbert

Boys' name

Variant of Adalbert

Adelbert has been given to 2,373 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1918, with 86 recorded.

Babies named Adelbert, 1995

1 in 732,000

Adelbert over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adelbert: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Adalbert

Old High German

What Adelbert means

Adelbert is a variant of Adalbert.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Adelbert is used in German and Dutch (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈaː.dl̩.bɛʁt/ for Adelbert.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Adelbert → Adalbert. The family’s meaning is “noble + bright, illustrious”, recorded in German with the source elements adal and bert.

Origin, language, and formation

Adelbert is used in English, Dutch and German. Its origins include Old High German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Adalbert, Albert and Ethelbert.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Adelbert is pronounced /ˈaːdəlˌbɛrt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,373 boys were recorded with the name Adelbert between 1880 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 86 in 1918; its best national rank was #320 in 1880.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Adelbert?

Adelbert had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1995
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,660,254 births
Among boys only
1 in 381,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1995
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,420 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adelbert 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 1995 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 507,420 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adelbert. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adelberts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adelbert was born before 1926 — so the typical Adelbert is around 99 today.

Median birth year
1926
About 99 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
22.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
436
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 22.0% of all recorded uses (522).

Is Adelbert 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (86)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#320
1880

Spellings of Adelbert

Adelbert is not the most common spelling — Albert is, with 84.8% against Adelbert's 0.41%.

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.

Where Adelbert is used

Across 1910–2025, Adelbert was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 125,079 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 33,333
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3Ohio1 in 50,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in —
  8. 8Nebraska1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Adelbert has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Adelbert around the world

Where Adelbert 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
    1901–1956
    #1,384
    in 1956
  • South Australia
    1956–1956
    #408
    in 1956

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Adelbert

People whose public names include Adelbert, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Adelbert 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
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Best rank ever
#320
1880
Peak year
1918
86 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
2,373
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Adelbert

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

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Names with a curve like Adelbert

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Adelbert, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Adelbert

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

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