Albany

Place-name

Albany Origin and Meaning

The name Albany is a boy's name .

A capital place-name possibility.

Famous People Named Albany

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

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).