Alberta · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Alberta.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1900

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 45 recorded years as a table

Alberta, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1900	40
1902	41
1906	53
1908	39
1909	55
1910	41
1912	19
1914	18
1915	8
1916	9
1917	8
1918	16
1919	9
1920	8
1921	6
1922	10
1923	10
1924	11
1925	6
1926	14
1927	12
1928	12
1929	14
1930	14
1931	8
1932	15
1933	14
1934	5
1935	9
1936	8
1937	5
1938	8
1939	7
1940	9
1941	4
1943	7
1945	5
1946	4
1949	3
1952	3
1954	3
1962	2
1985	3
1986	5
1987	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Alberta isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

More like Alberta

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 1987: 6
Rank in 1987: #6,089
How rare: 1 in 311,164 boys
Since 1900: 399

Alberta was last recorded in 1987. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1909, at 55 per million boys born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Alberta doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.