Adalbert
Adalbert is a German given name which means "noble bright" or "noble shining", derived from the words adal and berht. Alternative spellings include Adelbart, Adelbert and Adalberto. Derivative names include Albert and Elbert.
- Germanic
- German
Meaning & Origin of Adalbert
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Adalbert is a German given name which means "noble bright" or "noble shining", derived from the words adal and berht. Alternative spellings include Adelbart, Adelbert and Adalberto. Derivative names include Albert and Elbert.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Germanic
- German
The Story of Adalbert
The earliest SSA record of Adalbert as a baby boy name dates back to 1914, when 7 babies received it. 1915 was its biggest year on record, with 12 newborns named Adalbert — #2,184 in the national rankings. About 45% of every Adalbert on record arrived during the 1920s, its defining decade. Adalbert last appeared in the published SSA data in 1935, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 94 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Adalbert
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About the name Adalbert
Adalbert is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1914 and has accumulated 94 births in the dataset. Adalbert's peak popularity came in 1915 when it ranked #2,184. Use the chart and map above to compare Adalbert's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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