Origin and popularity of the name ALBERT

Origin

Albert : French English German Catalan Hungarian Romanian Dutch Slovak Czech Croatian Slovenian West Indian (mainly Haiti) and Mauritian: from the personal name Albert composed of the ancient Germanic elements adal ‘noble’ + berht ‘bright famous’. The standard German form is Albrecht. The name was borne by several Christian saints notably Saint Albert of Prague a Bohemian prince who died a martyr in 997 attempting to convert the Prussians to Christianity and Saint Albert the Great (c. 1193–1280) an Aristotelian theologian and tutor of Thomas Aquinas. In more recent times it has been adopted as a Jewish surname.

Alberda : West Frisian: patronymic meaning ‘(belonging to) Albert and his kin’ and subsequently also a habitational name for someone from the castle of Alberda or an estate or farm called Alberdaheerd in 't Zandt Groningen. This is the name of nobility in the Groninger Ommelanden region dating from the 15th century. In 1811 however in the province of Friesland the cognate patronymic Alberts became the surname Alberda officially in several families.

Alberding : North German (Westphalia) and Dutch: habitational name from Alberding a farmhouse originally belonging to a certain Albert and his kin (see Albert).

Bertie : Scottish (Angus): from a pet form of a personal name such as Albert or Bertram.

Brunsting : Dutch: habitational name for someone from the farmhouse and hamlet so called near Beilen in Drenthe province in the first half of the 16th century inhabited by Albert Breustinge.

Calbert : English: altered form of Albert by misdivision of a personal name and surname pair such as Rick Albert.

Dongray : a development of the French surname Dancre from a lost place-name Ancre with fused preposition de ‘from’. Ancre is an old name for the place now known as Albert (Somme).

Gotthelf : 1: German: from the personal name Gotthelf (literally ‘God's help’) which was first recorded at the beginning of the 18th century; it was formed in imitation of older German male names but stressing a Christian (Protestant) attitude and became popular through the Pietist movement in Germany. In some cases at least it was a late adoption as a surname; for instance the Swiss minister and writer Albert Bitzius (1797–1854) dubbed himself Jeremias Gotthelf.2: Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name with the same meaning as 1 above from German Gott ‘God’ + Helfe ‘help’.

Houselander : probably an anglicized form of the German surname Ausländer from Middle High German ūzlender ‘foreigner’. Compare Albert Auslander in Census 1881 (Saint George Bristol Gloucs).

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