Name in Japanese A Albert

Albert in Japanese

アルバート
Katakana
アルバート
Hiragana
あるばーと
Romaji (Hepburn)
Arubāto

This is the established spelling used for Albert in Japanese dictionaries, books and media.

How Albert sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

A
Ru
バー
To

Full reading: Arubāto

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Why Albert is written in katakana

In Japanese, foreign names are written in katakana — the angular script reserved for words borrowed from other languages. So on a form, a name tag, a delivery slip or a news article in Japan, Albert appears as アルバート. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees アルバート and immediately reads it by its sound, Arubāto.

Katakana is a syllabary, so English sounds are fitted to the nearest Japanese syllables and every consonant (except ん) is followed by a vowel. That is why Albert becomes アルバート rather than a letter-for-letter copy. More than one katakana spelling can be reasonable for the same name, which is why we flag whether a spelling is a long-established one or a natural default.