Alberto is a boy's name of Spanish origin meaning “noble and bright.” In 2024 it was given to 340 boys in the United States.
Alberto at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Spanish · Portuguese · Italian
Meaning
“noble and bright”
About the name Alberto
Alberto belongs to the Spanish and Portuguese tradition. Its meaning — “noble and bright” — is the sense carried by its Spanish roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Alberto first appears in Social Security records in 1882. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #218 in 1991, and in 2024 340 babies received the name — 62,507 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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