Meaning & Origin
A province in western Canada. Capital: Edmonton. Largest city: Calgary.
Alberta is a girl's and boy's baby name of Old High German origin, the feminine form of Albert, meaning 'noble and bright.' It carries the stately energy of a bygone era, popular in North America throughout the early 1900s when virtue names were in full fashion.
Alberta peaked in the U.S. during the 1910s and 1920s, riding the same wave of Germanic-rooted names that made Bertha and Wilhelmina household names. The Canadian province of the same name — named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, daughter of Queen Victoria — gives this name an unexpectedly grand geographical connection.