Given name & surname
Albertine
“noble and bright”
Albertine is a variant of Alberta. In German use, Alberta carries the interpretation “noble and bright.”
Original FrenchBerta
Meaning & origin
What it means
Albertine is a variant of Alberta. In German use, Alberta carries the interpretation “noble and bright.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From French Albertine, built from English Albert + -ine.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Albertine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,196
- 0 boys · 2,196 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 69 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1981. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 69 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 787 as a first name in 2020; 218 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Albertine’s family of names
In French usage, Albertine has a diminutive in Berta. Albertine has a related form in Alberta. In German usage, Albertine has a conventional equivalent in the English form Alberta.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Albertine
- Princess Albertina Frederica of Baden-DurlachMother of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden1682–1755
- Albertine Agnes of NassauRegent of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe (1664–1679)1634–1696
- Albertine SarrazinFrench writer (1937–1967)
- Albertine Necker de SaussureGenevan writer (1766-1841)
- Albertine of Brandenburg-SchwedtGerman princess1712–1750
- Albertine ZulloSwiss artist, illustrator and author of children's booksborn 1967
- Albertine von Montenuovo(1817–1867)
- Albertine-Elisabeth PaterDutch and French aristocrat and spy1742–1805
- Albertine RandallAmerican cartoonist (1863–1954)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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