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The alber Surname

alber Name Meaning and History

  1. from the personal name Alber, a reduced form of either Adalbert (see Albert) or Adalbero (from elements meaning ‘noble bear’).
  2. topographic name from Middle High German alber(boum) ‘white poplar’, from Old High German albari (ultimately from Latin albus ‘white’, ‘pale’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of alber Families in the US in 1920
Number of alber families
 39-75
 14-38		 1-13
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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