Albe
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Lat. albus / OFr albe, aube ‘white’; first attested Nicholas le Albe 1230 (MemR, Nf)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/alβe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Albe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Angola than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 131K(measured from records)
- AOAngola≈1 in 54K
- UYUruguay1 in 141K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Angola (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
≈600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Lat. albus / OFr albe, aube ‘white’; first attested Nicholas le Albe 1230 (MemR, Nf)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Albe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Albe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Nicholas le Albe 1230 MemR (Nf); Geoffrey Albe 1327 SRLei. Lat albus, OFr albe, aube ‘white’. Used also as a feminine name: Alba (f) 1315 AssNf.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Synonym of albeit.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu einem Rufnamen mit ahd. adal 'Geschlecht, Adel' oder ahd. alb, alp 'Alb, Elf, Naturgeist'. 72 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, from Alb; also used for 'whitefish'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Romanian, nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of alb
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gerhard Albeb. 1892SESwedish painter and printmaker (1892-1965)
- Maurice Albeb. 1900FRFrench painter and sculptor (1900-1995)
- Denise Albe-Fessardb. 1916FRFrench neuroscientist (1916-2003)
- Marie Albeb. 1924FRFrench actress (1924-2021)
- René Albeb. 1955FRFrench politician
- Frank Albeb. 1964DEGerman economist
- Louis-Marie AlbeFRFrench politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 42 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 35 | #74,979 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 34 | #36,550 |
| FR France | Dictionnaire Généalogique des Prénoms (Athias, 2007) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Albe mean, and where does it come from?
- from Lat. albus / OFr albe, aube ‘white’; first attested Nicholas le Albe 1230 (MemR, Nf) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Albe?
- A machine transcription gives /alβe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Albe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 598 people named Albe in Angola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled albe.
- How common is the name Albe?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 347 people named Albe, about 1 in 131 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/albeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Albe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.