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National Albert Day

Next celebratedSaturday, February 27, 2027

Five European countries keep November 15 for Albert, the day the Dominican who taught Thomas Aquinas died. February 27 is the American addition, and it appears on none of the nineteen name days Europe already keeps.

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YEARLY DATEFebruary 27
OBSERVED INUnited States
CATEGORYNames
ORIGIN

Community Origin

FOUNDING ENTITY
Not documented
FIRST OBSERVED
Not documented
“The name is centuries old. The day is not.
HOW THE HOLIDAY CAME TO BE

The trail stops at a listing from 2022.

No founder, proclamation or launch announcement for National Albert Day has been identified. Its earliest traceable listing is an Internet Archive capture from August 2022, which dates the listing rather than the day.

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INTRO

February 27 is not one of Albert's traditional name days

National Albert Day lands on February 27, a date with no particular claim on the name. Behind the Name's index records nineteen Albert name days across twelve countries, spread over ten separate dates. February 27 is not among them.

The nearest the older calendars come is Poland's February 18, nine days early. The dates they do keep cluster hard. Five countries mark Albert on November 15, and three more keep August 7.

Both of those are feast days, and both belong to real men. February 27 rests on nothing so old. It is a recent American addition to a much older habit of giving Albert a day.

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ORIGINS

Albert Day history

CHAPTER 01

The scholar who fixed November 15

Albert the Great died at Cologne on November 15, 1280, and the date stuck. He was a Dominican bishop who established the study of nature as a legitimate science within the Christian tradition, and he taught Thomas Aquinas.

Britannica calls him the only scholar of his age to be called the Great, a title used even before he died. The church took longer to agree. He was canonized on December 16, 1931, more than six centuries after his death, and Pope Pius XI made him a doctor of the church the same year.

CHAPTER 02

A Sicilian friar and the August feast

The second date belongs to a different man entirely. The Carmelite Order's own calendar keeps August 7 for Albert of Trapani, who was prior provincial of Sicily in 1296 and died at Messina, most likely in 1307.

He was the first saint the Carmelites venerated, and his standing grew after he was gone. By the sixteenth century every Carmelite church was expected to dedicate an altar to him. Later Carmelite saints, among them Teresa of Jesus and Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, were devoted to him.

CHAPTER 03

The prince who brought the name back

England nearly lost the name altogether. It is Germanic in origin, from Adalbert, meaning noble and bright. Behind the Name records that Albert had become rare in England by the seventeenth century, and that it was repopularized in the nineteenth by the German-born Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband.

The American day is the newest layer and by far the thinnest. Nothing on record names a founder, a sponsor or a first observance. Of the three holiday registries checked against the Internet Archive, only one carries the day at all.

GOOD TO KNOW

National Albert Day Around the World

Poland

Keeps four Albert dates, as many as any country in the index: February 18, August 7, November 15 and November 21.

Austria

Also keeps four, on August 7, September 14, November 15 and November 24.

France and Hungary

Both mark Albert on November 15 and nowhere else in the year.

Croatia

Keeps the two saints' dates together, August 7 and November 15.

Denmark and Sweden

Share August 30, a date no other country in the index uses for Albert.

Finland and Norway

Both keep April 24 for Albert.

Czechia

Marks November 21, the same date Poland uses for its fourth Albert entry.

Slovakia and Estonia

Both stand alone, Slovakia on April 8 and Estonia on August 24.

WHY THIS DAY MATTERS

Why We Love National Albert Day

Continuity

One hundred and forty-five years of data, and Albert is in all of them.

Albert appears in every one of the 145 annual files the Social Security Administration publishes, from 1880 through 2024. That data covers US births where the person has a Social Security Number, and it lists a name only at five or more occurrences. Albert has cleared that floor in every year on record.

Institutions

Victoria put the name on a building

Laying the foundation stone in May 1867, Queen Victoria announced that the hall should 'bear his name to whom it will have owed its existence and be called the Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences'. Prince Albert had died six years earlier.

Science

Rome made him a patron of working scientists

By papal decree in 1941, Albert the Great was declared the patron saint of all who cultivate the natural sciences. The wording is worth keeping. The decree names the people doing the work, not the subject they study.

BY THE NUMBERS

National Albert Day by the Numbers

#14
Albert's best rank, Social Security boys' data
82 years
Albert unbroken in the US top 100, 1880 to 1961
#76
Albert's rank across the 1950s
467
Social Security births named Albert in 2024

GET INVOLVED

How to Celebrate National Albert Day

EDITOR'S PICK

Check which calendar your Albert keeps

If the Albert you know has family in Poland, Austria, Croatia, France or Hungary, November 15 may matter far more to him than February 27. Ask before you send anything, and note the date for next year.

SEND

Send the greeting twice

There is no rule against marking both. Take February 27 as the American date and add whichever European date fits his family, which for five countries in the index is November 15.

READ

Read the man behind the November date

Spend ten minutes on Albert the Great, who taught Thomas Aquinas and in 1941 was named patron of all who cultivate the natural sciences. The November 15 name day makes far more sense afterwards.

LOOK

Look up the Carmelite feast

The Carmelite Order publishes its own entry for Albert of Trapani, the friar behind the August 7 date. It is short, and it explains why three countries keep that day.

LOOK

Look your own Albert up in the federal data

The Social Security Administration publishes a name file for every birth year from 1880 onward. Find the year an Albert in your family was born and see where the name ranked that year.

Test your knowledge

How well do you know National Albert Day?

1 / 8

Which date do the most countries keep as Albert's name day?

Answer

No. It has no official or public-holiday status anywhere that could be located, and a full-text search of the Federal Register returns no document containing the phrase.

COLOPHON

Sources

How we know what’s on this page. References, not endorsements.

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4primary records
2independently dated
Primary records
Carmelite Order (Curia Generalizia, O.Carm.)
St. Albert of Trapani, Priest
The Order's own liturgical entry for its August 7 feast, recording Albert of Trapani as prior provincial of Sicily in 1296, his death at Messina most likely in 1307, and his standing as the first saint venerated by the Carmelites.
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US Social Security AdministrationTabulated March 2, 2025
Popular Baby Names: national data
Annual counts of given names among US births where the individual has a Social Security Number, 1880 to 2024, published only for names reaching five or more occurrences in a year. Albert's rank and count series were re-derived from this dataset.
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US Social Security Administration
Top Names of the 1950s
The agency's own published decade table, which places Albert 76th among boys' names for the 1950s and was used to verify the rank series against an independent copy of the data.
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Federal Register
Documents search
The federal government's document of record, searched for the exact phrase National Albert Day. It returns nothing, while control phrases for established observances return dozens of documents, which is the basis for the page's official-status answer.
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Additional coverage
Behind the Name
Name Days for the name Albert
The full name-day index for Albert, listing nineteen entries across twelve countries on ten distinct dates. February 27 does not appear, and Poland's February 18 is the only February entry.
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Behind the Name
Meaning, origin and history of the name Albert
Traces Albert to the Germanic Adalbert, notes that the name had become rare in England by the seventeenth century, and records its nineteenth-century revival through the German-born Prince Albert.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
St. Albertus Magnus
Biography giving his death at Cologne on November 15, 1280, his canonization on December 16, 1931, the 1941 papal decree naming him patron of all who cultivate the natural sciences, and his teaching of Thomas Aquinas.
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UK Parliament, House of Lords Library2021
Royal Albert Hall at 150
Research briefing quoting Queen Victoria's May 1867 foundation-stone announcement that the hall should bear Prince Albert's name, and tracing the project back to the Great Exhibition of 1851.
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