Adalbert

given name · German · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Adalbert is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 74th most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Germanic *aþal- 'noble' + *berht- 'bright, famous'.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 313◐
  • FIFinland1 in 1K
  • ESSpain1 in 1.5K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈583K ●

across 16 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
177 ●

121K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 313 ◐

Netherlands

Spellings & scripts●

AdalbertoLatin · Portuguese●719K records
АдальбертоCyrillic · Russian●6 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Adalberto in BR Brazil, FR France, US United States and 5 more, Albert in HU Hungary, FI Finland, SE Sweden and 5 more and Albertus in NL Netherlands, ZA South Africa, BE Belgium and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

from Germanic *aþal- 'noble' + *berht- 'bright, famous'

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Adalbert is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—204,370△393 rec.1 in 332204KAdalberto86
US United States—191,849△54K rec.1 in 1.7K192KAdalberto177
NL Netherlands#7455,197△1.5K rec.1 in 31355KAlbertus70
BR Brazil#56240,63827K rec.1 in 5.2K48KAdalberto164
ES Spain—33,666△792 rec.1 in 1.5K34KAdalberto49
PL Poland—15,344△87 rec.1 in 2.5K15KAdalbert2
DE Germany#95711,70910K rec.—1Adalbert102
SE Sweden—11,367△76 rec.1 in 89811KAlbert23
VE Venezuela—9,4902 rec.—4.7KAdalberto4
ZA South Africa#3709,47210K rec.——Albertus56
HU Hungary#1775,6804K rec.1 in 1.7K5.7KAlbert121
DK Denmark—5,509△1 rec.1 in 1.1K5.5K—2

Roughly 204K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 332). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • German12K45%
  • English3.5K14%
  • French2.1K8%
  • Ukrainian1.7K7%
  • Spanish1.7K7%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
German11,74645%
English3,54214%
French2,1248%
Ukrainian1,7407%
Spanish1,7317%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Adalbert is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name3.9K records spelled Adalbert134 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Poland, Ukraine, United States

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

    Also written Альберт, Albert, Alberth, Al'Bert, Alberto

  • Spanish given name3.1K records spelled Adalbert192 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Alberto, Adalberto, Alberte, Aldebert, Álberto

  • French given name3.0K records spelled Adalbert18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Albert, Al'Bert, Albért, Albèrt, Albêrt

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Adalbert is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Germanic, from adal 'noble' + beraht 'bright'.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In German, from *aþala- 'noble' + *berhtaz- 'bright'

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • Germanic: older form of ALBRECHT. Also: Adalbrecht, Adelbrecht.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In German, a male given name from Old High German, an old variant of Adelbert or Albert.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Origine germanique, signifie « noble et illustre ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01020302000200520102015202029 · 1999

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Adalbert in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199929
200028
200126
200225
200323
200423
200523
200622
200721
200821
200920
201021
201119
201219
201319
201419
201515
201615
201716
201816
201914
202013

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

500100015002000Adalbert of Italy, b. 932Adalbert II, Count of Ballenstedt, b. 1030Adalbert Stifter, b. 1805Prince Adalbert of Prussia, b. 1811Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, b. 1828Prince Adalbert of Prussia, b. 1884Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria, b. 1884Wilm Hosenfeld, b. 1895Franz, Duke of Bavaria, b. 1933Christoph Schönborn, b. 1945

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 44 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Adalbert
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)1941270#351
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020205#37,708
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—161#13,576
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—140#4,271
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—117#33,627
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026113#727
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—78#2,287
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—68#5,567
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202245—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202145#2,467
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—45#71,575
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—45#9,494

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 125 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Adalbert?
We estimate roughly 583 thousand people bear Adalbert (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
In which country does Adalbert have the most bearers?
We estimate about 204 thousand people bear Adalbert in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled adalberto.
Where is Adalbert most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Adalbert is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 313 people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
How common is Adalbert compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Adalbert is the 74th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
Is Adalbert a male or female name?
Adalbert is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Adalbert mean?
Recorded meaning: from Germanic *aþal- 'noble' + *berht- 'bright, famous'
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Adalbert” — the 74th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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