Last Name ALBERT

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Meaning	The son of Albert, from Ethelbert or Adelbert. The son of Ailbrith, in Domesday Ailbrith. Albrecht is a German immigrant of much later date. Allbright is English. Albern again, is ancient and fairly modern. All bright or famous; 'beort' or 'bert,' signifies famous, fair, and clear, bright; so 'Sebert' and 'Ethelbert' were sometimes written 'Se bright' and 'Ethel bright.' 'All,' 'Eal,' and 'Ael,' in old English and Saxon compound names, have the same signification as the English 'All,' as Al-dred, Al-win, etc.

Origin	English, German, Jewish, Danish, French, Czech, Polish, Chilean, Irish, Slovakian, Haitian, Creole, Austrian, Belgian, Nigerian, Hungarian

Rank	1,028 (2000 US census)	899 (1990 US census)

Count	31,159 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

80.36%, or 25039 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
12.39%, or 3861 total occurrences, as black,
1.12%, or 349 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1.44%, or 449 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.56%, or 486 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
3.13%, or 975 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

English surnames

English surnames can be divided into five classes: Baptisimal or Personal (first) names, local, official, and occupative surnames. Nicknames represent the last class. Practically there are only four classes, for it is often hard ti distinguish between occupation and offic...