Albany

Scottish place name

Albany Origin and Meaning

The name Albany is a boy's name.

A capital place-name possibility.

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Famous People Named Albany

• Albany Leon "Barney" Bigard American jazz clarinetist with Duke Ellington

The name Albany in Pop Culture

• Albany Porcello main character in 1934's Children of the Poor and 1936's The Hunted, by John A. Lee
• The Duke of Albany Scottish title of the future King James II of England
• Albany capital city of New York, USA
• ORIGIN: May be an extension of St Alban's name or an allusion to Scotland (deriving ultimately from Celtic alp = 'rock, mountain'). The surname Albany means 'servant or retainer of the dukes of Albany (a dukedom of the royal house of Stuart)' (from a Gaelic name for Scotland).