Albertha
Albertha was last recorded in 1987, when 6 babies were given it; 5,145 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,240 Americans named Albertha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (24% of everyone recorded); the median is 76 years old and half are between 69 and 84.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Albertha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Albertha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,851, in 1987; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
147 babies in 1922, the peak
Albertha peaked in 1922, when 147 girls were given it, #593 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 6 | #9,851 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,298 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,425 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,772 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,670 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #7,994 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,443 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,297 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,394 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,414 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 12 | #4,198 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,611 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,848 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 11 | #3,960 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,051 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 24 | #2,531 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,544 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,667 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,298 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 31 | #2,060 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 34 | #1,917 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,819 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 47 | #1,569 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 47 | #1,547 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 44 | #1,537 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 55 | #1,344 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 48 | #1,410 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 57 | #1,257 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 73 | #1,090 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 87 | #970 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 65 | #1,121 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 63 | #1,123 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 73 | #1,037 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 61 | #1,087 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 62 | #979 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 82 | #841 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 90 | #816 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 75 | #902 | 0.06 |
| 1941 | 71 | #865 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 79 | #795 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 64 | #878 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 69 | #851 | 0.06 |
| 1937 | 87 | #723 | 0.08 |
| 1936 | 101 | #657 | 0.10 |
| 1935 | 88 | #715 | 0.08 |
| 1934 | 87 | #710 | 0.08 |
| 1933 | 80 | #736 | 0.08 |
| 1932 | 99 | #678 | 0.09 |
| 1931 | 89 | #708 | 0.08 |
| 1930 | 113 | #650 | 0.10 |
| 1929 | 113 | #654 | 0.10 |
| 1928 | 116 | #651 | 0.10 |
| 1927 | 116 | #670 | 0.10 |
| 1926 | 126 | #639 | 0.11 |
| 1925 | 136 | #627 | 0.11 |
| 1924 | 131 | #653 | 0.10 |
| 1923 | 140 | #623 | 0.12 |
| 1922 | 147 | #593 | 0.12 |
| 1921 | 115 | #690 | 0.09 |
| 1920 | 124 | #646 | 0.10 |
| 1919 | 128 | #619 | 0.11 |
| 1918 | 129 | #622 | 0.11 |
| 1917 | 99 | #690 | 0.09 |
| 1916 | 115 | #631 | 0.11 |
| 1915 | 94 | #682 | 0.10 |
| 1914 | 83 | #635 | 0.11 |
| 1913 | 83 | #561 | 0.13 |
| 1912 | 66 | #603 | 0.12 |
| 1911 | 59 | #548 | 0.14 |
| 1910 | 51 | #576 | 0.13 |
| 1909 | 56 | #501 | 0.16 |
| 1908 | 46 | #546 | 0.14 |
| 1907 | 44 | #545 | 0.14 |
| 1906 | 46 | #509 | 0.16 |
| 1905 | 44 | #510 | 0.15 |
| 1904 | 48 | #474 | 0.17 |
| 1903 | 35 | #549 | 0.13 |
| 1902 | 31 | #591 | 0.12 |
| 1901 | 24 | #646 | 0.10 |
| 1900 | 29 | #656 | 0.10 |
| 1899 | 15 | #836 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 27 | #619 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 28 | #567 | 0.12 |
| 1896 | 16 | #813 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 12 | #932 | 0.05 |
| 1894 | 16 | #745 | 0.07 |
| 1893 | 12 | #866 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,281 | 0.03 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,215 | 0.03 |
| 1890 | 9 | #942 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,026 | 0.04 |
| 1888 | 8 | #962 | 0.04 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,151 | 0.03 |
| 1885 | 10 | #695 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 10 | #687 | 0.08 |
| 1882 | 5 | #910 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Albertha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Albertha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 96 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Albertha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Albertha, and how old are they?
1,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 24% of the 5,145 Americans ever recorded as Albertha. The median Albertha alive today is 76 years old; half are between 69 and 84.
The 2020 Census counted 1,526 people named Albertha (1,518 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,673 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 426 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 686 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 106 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Albertha born?
The states with the most babies named Albertha are South Carolina, Louisiana and Georgia, with 85% of its births recorded by state since 1910; South Carolina and Louisiana are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 1,608 | not ranked | 16.6× |
| Louisiana | 832 | not ranked | 8.4× |
| Georgia | 363 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Florida | 280 | not ranked | 4.1× |
| Mississippi | 91 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 46 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 22 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Alabama | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 10 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Albertha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Albertha is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 16.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Albertha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 5,221 babies since 1880, Albertha is the most given (99% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Albertha
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Albertha and names like it
- Compare Albertha and AlbirthaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sAlbertha peaked in 1922.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Albertha since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Albertha.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Albertha alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.