Albertine

Where Albertine comes from

Borrowed from French Albertine. Variant of Albertina. By surface analysis, Albert + -ine.
— Wiktionary's entry for Albertine
  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1766
    Albertine Necker de Saussure born
    Genevan writer
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1883
    Peak, #517
    14 babies named Albertine — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,108.
  5. 1937
    Albertine Sarrazin born
    French writer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Albertine Sarrazin · French writer, 1937–1967
  • Albertine Necker de Saussure · Genevan writer, 1766–1841
  • Albertine Zullo · Swiss artist, illustrator and author of children's books, born 1967
  • Albertine von Montenuovo · 1817–1867
  • Albertine Elisabeth de Champcenetz · Dutch and French aristocrat and spy, 1742–1805

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.