Adalbert
Fewer than 80 men in Poland carry it, few enough that most people here have never met one. The root is Germanic, built from words for "noble" and "bright".
Adalbert Pronunciation
Adalbert is pronounced ah-DAHL-bert (/aˈdalbɛrt/).
What Adalbert means
Where Adalbert comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Adalbert comes from Germanic roots: adal, "noble," and beraht, "bright." That pairing gives the meaning carried today, noble and bright, or in Polish szlachetny blask. The variant adelbert keeps the older shape a little closer to the surface.
The name traveled with the Church. Saint Adalbert of Prague, a bishop martyred in 997 near the Baltic coast, is known to Poles as Wojciech, and Adalbert served as his Latin and German name. A boy called Adalbert stands beside one of Poland's patron saints under a different label.
On a Polish class register the name reads as foreign now. It sounds German, and that association is real. Adalbert was common among German nobility and clergy for centuries.
The meaning stays legible in both halves. Adal for noble, beraht for bright, held together in the gloss szlachetny blask.
When Adalbert celebrates name day
Adalbert appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 23 April.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Adalbert
1 in 273669 men in Poland is named Adalbert. 78 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4018 among male names.
Adalbert as a middle name
Adalbert is a first name for 78 men in Poland and a middle name for another 73, a 52/48 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 842nd, between Ursyn (74) and Evan (73).
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#840 Teo74
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#842 Adalbert73
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