The Albright surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 25,189 people carried this name — #1,410 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 11,700 people counted. That is up 1% from 24,942 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Albright surname

From Old English Æþelbeorht.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Albright» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

As an English and Welsh surname

Bardsley classes it as a baptismal name, from a given name: ‘the son of Albert’.

His entry covers Albert, Allbright, Allbred and Albright.

From Charles W. Bardsley, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, with Special American Instances (London: Henry Frowde, 1901), p. 43 · public domain.

In the first U.S. census, 1790

58 families named Albright, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.

Each family is counted by its head. About 259 people lived in those households, 4.5 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 6 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.

Families, by state

Pennsylvania 30
North Carolina 21
Maryland 4
New York 2
Virginia 1

U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 227 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.

In print

Albright in American newspapers,
1896–1907.

Newspaper page from The Madisonian carrying the name Albright
The Madisonian 1896-11-07
Newspaper page from The Anaconda Standard carrying the name Albright
The Anaconda Standard 1896-08-23
Newspaper page from The Columbus Weekly Dispatch carrying the name Albright
The Columbus Weekly Dispatch 1907-06-13

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

In print

Albright in Australian newspapers,
1850s–1970s.

925 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Albright. The most, 335, date from the 1950s. New South Wales has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in the Australian Capital Territory, at 2.6 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 449
South Australia 120
Queensland 101
Victoria 100
Western Australia 72
ACT (Canberra) 31
Tasmania 29

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Albright.

Who carried it

People named Albright,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Jacob Albright
    Jacob Albright 1759–1808 · preacher
  • Jacob Albright
    Jacob Albright 1759–1808 · preacher
  • Charles J. Albright
    Charles J. Albright 1816–1883 · politician
  • Charles Albright
    Charles Albright 1830–1880 · lawyer
  • Philip Albright d. 1959 · actor
  • Barbara Mary Strickland d. 1939

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Albright,
in the records of 4 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States1,838 records

1,838 records of the Albright name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 995
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 353
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 187
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 159
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 93
  • Sacramento County historic burials 20
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 16
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 7
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 5
  • Irish Famine arrivals at New York, 1846–1851 3
  1. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Buck Edward Albright

    Born 1949; from Tempe, Arizona. U.S. Marine Corps, rifleman; killed in action 1969 in Quang Nam, South Vietnam. Buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, California.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Frederick H. Albright

    Born 1909 in New York. Enlisted 1944 at Camp Upton Yaphank; driver from Queens County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1995, buried at Calverton National Cemetery, New York.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Fred-W. Albright

    Arrived at New York in 1885 aboard the City of Chester from Liverpool and Queenstown, aged 51; laborer. From Hamburg, Germany; bound for Missouri.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 1,838 records for Albright in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Famine Irish Passenger Records (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

Canada40 records

40 records of the Albright name in Canada
  • Nova Scotia Archives name indexes 23
  • City of Winnipeg cemetery records 6
  • City of Calgary cemetery records 5
  • Canadian Virtual War Memorial 5
  • Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver 1
  1. Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Example: Canadian cemetery
    Burial record John Albright

    Died 1982, aged 90; buried at Brookside Cemetery, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

    City of Winnipeg. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Winnipeg.
  2. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Death record Cyrus Albright

    Died 1935 in Freeport, Digby, Nova Scotia.

    Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.
  3. A Canadian First World War grave register card for a soldier who died of wounds in 1917
    Example: Canadian war grave register, 1917
    War record Frederick Bruce Albright

    Died in service in 1942.

    Veterans Affairs Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada.

Showing 3 of 40 records for Albright in Canada.

Counts: Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia. · City of Winnipeg. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Winnipeg. · City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. · Veterans Affairs Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. · City of Vancouver. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, photo by Edgar El (CC BY 3.0); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0); Canadian First World War circumstances-of-death register (scan by Scottgraham87 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0).

Australia12 records

12 records of the Albright name in Australia
  • Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923 9
  • Tasmanian Names Index 3
  1. An 1829 etching of convicts being rowed out to the prison ship York in Portsmouth Harbour
    Pictured: convicts going on board a prison ship, 1829
    Transportation record Elizabeth Albright

    Transported to Van Diemen's Land aboard the Royal Admiral, sailing from London in 1842. Native of Wandsworth, Surrey.

    Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0)
  2. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Johan A. Albright

    Arrived in Victoria in 1889 aboard the Oroya, aged 30.

    Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record D. F. Albright

    Arrived in Victoria in 1895 aboard the Orotava.

    Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0)

Showing 3 of 12 records for Albright in Australia.

Counts: Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0) · Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Prison-ship in Portsmouth Harbour, with the convicts going on board, etching by Edward William Cooke, 1829, Royal Museums Greenwich (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

Netherlands1 record

1 record of the Albright name in the Netherlands Dutch civil registers (births, marriages, deaths)
  1. A marriage entry in the civil register of Tilburg, 1911
    Example: marriage register, 1911
    Marriage record Samuel Arthur Albright

    Married in 1946 in Vught; born 1925 in Milbank, Canada.

    Open Archives, Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum (CC BY 4.0)

Counts: Open Archives (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain).

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