Alberts
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Albert with post-medieval excrescent -s
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈæɫbɝts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alberts is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 4.8K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 6K
- USUnited States1 in 53K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 338 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Albert with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alberts 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #726 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Alberts | 92 |
| US United States | — | 6,229 | 1 in 53K | 6.2K | Alberts | 338 |
| NL Netherlands | #540 | 3,622 | 1 in 4.8K | 3.6K | Alberts | 78 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Alberts | 102 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 73K | listed | Alberts | 8 |
| GY Guyana | #329 | 261 | 1 in 2.9K | 261 | Alberts | 4 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 2.2K | — | 22 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 9 | — | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); the xinhua-italian-manual register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Alberts 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 English, A surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name Albert.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, genitive singular of Albert
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, 864 Belege; Verteilungstyp mit genitivischer Endung -s; Konsonantenvariation gegenüber -bert/-bertz in der Albert-Formenreihe.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Patronymische Bildung mit -s zu Albert/Albrecht; zeigt r-Position. Belegt: 864 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Patronym zu Albert; Genitiv-/Pluralform zum Rufnamen Albert; 1109 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)
- Jada Albertsb. 1901AUAustralian actor, playwright and director
- Albert Albertsb. 1911NLDutch writer, translator and journalist (1911–1995)
- Sjaak Albertsb. 1926NLDutch association football player (1926-1997)
- Ton Albertsb. 1927NLarchitect (1927–1999)
- Bruce Albertsb. 1938USAmerican biochemist
- David S. Albertsb. 1942USAmerican control systems researcher
- Robert Albertsb. 1954NLDutch football player and manager
- Andrew Albertsb. 1981USAmerican ice hockey player
- Bryan Albertsb. 1994USAmerican–Dutch basketball player
- Jonathan AlbertsCanadian-American film editor
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.2K | #5,578 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.2K | #5,176 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6K | #5,615 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 3.6K | #278 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 261 | #371 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Alberts mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Albert with post-medieval excrescent -s. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Alberts?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈæɫbɝts/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Alberts have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.4 thousand people named Alberts in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alberts.
- Where is Alberts most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alberts is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 2.9 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Alberts?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,229 people named Alberts in 2010, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
- How common is Alberts compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Alberts is the 726th most common surname of 285,788 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/albertsThe 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, “Alberts” — the 726th most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.