In 2025, 10 US girls were named Alberta, making it the 9,481st most common girls’ name of the year, up 831 places from #10,312 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 9 girls named Alberta in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #104, reached in 1910. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,017, in 1919. For comparison, it was #10,918 in 2015 and #315 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alberta in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 76 babies with the name. In all, 70,764 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 17,975 babies named Alberta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 87 US girls were named Alberta; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Albertine (2,196 babies since 1880) and Albertha (5,145 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Albertina, Albirta and Albirtha are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Allie, Bert and Bertie.
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