Albertus

Spellings & scripts●

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 Adalbert in PL Poland, DE Germany, AT Austria.

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●

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

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

• Indonesian given name8.2K records spelled Albertus3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia, South Africa

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Albertus

• Portuguese given name4.1K records spelled Albertus5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in South Africa, Brazil, United States, Argentina

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Albértus, Albertuş, Albertús

• a separate given name901 records spelled Albertus2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, Italy, India

  Also written Albertús

51 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●

Albertus is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, männl. Vom., latinisierte Form von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Russian, Ivan Albertus, Dalmatian prince. 1632.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In Indonesian, a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Albert, mostly used as the baptismal name on Christian Indonesians

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latin, a male given name, equivalent to English Albert

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 43 years between 1880–1970. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Albertus Parisiensisb. 1150FRMedieval French composer
• Albert Schultensb. 1686NLnot in their usual nameDutch philologist (1686-1750)
• Jacob Jacobsb. 1812BEnot in their usual namelandscape and seascape painter (1812-1879)
• Albert Baertsoenb. 1866BEnot in their usual nameBelgian painter (1866-1922)
• Albertus Soegijapranatab. 1896IDCatholic archbishop (1896–1963)
• Herman Krebbersb. 1923NLnot in their usual nameDutch musician (1923–2018)
• James A. McClureb. 1924USnot in their usual nameAmerican attorney, Idaho State Senator and U.S. Senator for the State of Idaho (1924-2011)
• Dick Annegarnb. 1952NLnot in their usual nameDutch rock singer-songwriter
• Albert Verlindeb. 1961NLnot in their usual nameDutch television presenter and theatrical producer (born 1961)
• Kwagga Smithb. 1993ZAnot in their usual nameSouth African rugby union footballer

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 120 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Albertus?

We estimate roughly 583 thousand people bear Albertus (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.

In which country does Albertus have the most bearers?

We estimate about 204 thousand people bear Albertus in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled adalberto.

Where is Albertus most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Albertus is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 313 people — even though France holds more of our records for it.

How common is Albertus compared with other names?

In the Netherlands, Albertus is the 74th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.

Is Albertus a male or female name?

Albertus 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 Albertus mean?

Recorded meaning: A male given name from the Germanic languages.