Albertha

Meaning of Albertha

Albertha is a feminine anthroponym of Germanic provenance, formed through the addition of the feminine suffix “-a” to the masculine root Albert—itself a compound of Old High German adal (“noble”) and berht (“bright” or “famous”). In Anglo-American usage, and most notably within Florida’s early twentieth-century birth records, Albertha achieved its greatest relative frequency in 1911, when it ranked forty-five among female given names, before entering a steady phase of decline that left it at rank one hundred seventy-seven by 1961. Pronounced /ælˈbɑrθə/ in contemporary English, the name conveys a sense of dignified antiquity and etymological depth; its presence in genealogical archives and period literature underscores its historical resonance as a marker of both noble aspiration and linguistic tradition.