Alberta

Where Alberta comes from

From Albert + -a. The province was named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta.
— Wiktionary's entry for Alberta
  • Germanic
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #171 among girls — 76 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1910
    Peak, #104
    832 babies named Alberta — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1955
    Alberta Watson born
    Canadian actress
  4. 1958
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #517.
  5. 1980
    Alberta Brianti born
    Italian tennis player
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, masculine equivalent Albert.
Namesakes
  • Alberta Brianti · Italian tennis player, born 1980
  • Alberta Watson · Canadian actress, 1955–2015
  • Alberta Hunter · American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse, 1895–1984
  • Alberta Santuccio · Italian fencer, born 1994
  • Alberta Adams · American singer, musician, 1917–2014

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.