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Albertha

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Albertha has been given to 5,145 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1922, with 147 recorded.

Babies named Albertha, 1987

1 in 601,000

Albertha over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Albertha: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Albertha means

Albertha is a given name.

The naming story behind Albertha

Wikidata records Albertha as a given name. The entity identifier is Q21142182, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,145 girls were recorded with the name Albertha between 1882 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 147 in 1922; its best national rank was #474 in 1904.

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.

How common is Albertha?

Albertha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1987
1 in 601,000
6 of 3,605,072 births
Among girls only
1 in 290,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1987
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
416,475 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Albertha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1987 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 416,475 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Albertha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alberthas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Albertha was born before 1928 — so the typical Albertha is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
24.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
781
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1920s — 24.6% of all recorded uses (1,264).

Is Albertha 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 1922 (147)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#474
1904

Spellings of Albertha

Albertha is not the most common spelling — Bertha is, with 69.1% against Albertha's 1.7%.

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 Albertha is used

Across 1910–2025, Albertha was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 1,471 girls, against 1 in 19,673 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

068 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 1,471
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 3,448
  3. 3Georgia1 in 12,500
  4. 4Florida1 in 20,000
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 25,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Albertha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Albertha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#474
1904
Peak year
1922
147 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
5,145
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Albertha

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

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Names with a curve like Albertha

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

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Sibling names for Albertha

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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