Alberto
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: from Germanic *adal- 'noble' + *berht- 'bright'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/alberto/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alberto is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common given name.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 221(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 282
- PYParaguay≈1 in 353
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- #82 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 495 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 221 (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Germanic *adal- 'noble' + *berht- 'bright'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
How Alberto is read(measured from records)
Alberto is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish80%
from Germanic *adal- 'noble' + *berht- 'bright'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Contracción de Adalberto; germánico. Asociado a santos y a Albrecht (alemán).
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Portuguese6.4%
a male given name from Proto-Germanic, equivalent to English Albert
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alberto counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #5 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 221 | 4.1K | Alberto | 188 |
| ES Spain | #20 | 177,437 | 1 in 282 | 179K | Alberto | 299 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 628 | — | Alberto | 121 |
| IT Italy | #48 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 373 | 511 | Alberto | 252 |
| US United States | #545 | 96,609 | 1 in 3.4K | 96K | Alberto | 495 |
| PE Peru | #8 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 408 | — | Alberto | 158 |
| PY Paraguay | #345 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 353 | — | Alberto | 68 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Alberto is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
ilustre; illustrious; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, EliasAlbelansis,Grecia Portugal
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, dal germanico Adalbert, 'illustre per nobiltà'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, Variante di Adalberto.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gregory VIIIb. 1100ITnot in their usual namePope of the Roman Catholic Church in 1187
- Albert IIb. 1397ATnot in their usual nameKing of Germany, Hungary and Bohemia
- Victor Emmanuel II of Italyb. 1820ITnot in their usual nameKing of Sardinia (1849–1861) and King of Italy (1861–1878)
- Alberto Moraviab. 1907ITItalian writer and journalist (1907-1990)
- Alberto Ascarib. 1918ITItalian racing driver (1918–1955)
- Albert Uderzob. 1927FRnot in their usual nameFrench comic book artist (1927–2020)
- Alberto Fujimorib. 1938PEPresident of Peru from 1990 to 2000
- Alberto Fernándezb. 1959ARpresident of Argentina from 2019 to 2023
- Martín Vizcarrab. 1963PEnot in their usual namePresident of Peru from 2018 to 2020
- Luis Alberto Suárezb. 1987UYUruguayan association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 116 sources across 58 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 179K | #27 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 177K | #46 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 96K | #564 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 511 | #71 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 301 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 262 | #439 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 226 | #564 |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Alberto mean, and where does it come from?
- from Germanic *adal- 'noble' + *berht- 'bright' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Alberto?
- In the etymology graph, Albert, Adalberto and Bert are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Alberto have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 205 thousand people named Alberto in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alberto.
- How common is the name Alberto?
- In Spain, the national register counted 177,437 people named Alberto, about 1 in 282 residents.
- How common is Alberto compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Alberto is the 5th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Alberto?
- A machine transcription gives /alberto/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Alberto a male or female name?
- Alberto 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 do you want to know about Alberto?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/albertoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Alberto” — the 5th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.