Albany
Scottish place name
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Albany Origin and Meaning
The name Albany is a boy's name.
A capital place-name possibility.
20 Names Similar to Albany
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Famous People Named Albany
- Albany Leon "Barney" BigardAmerican jazz clarinetist with Duke Ellington
The name Albany in Pop Culture
- Albany Porcellomain character in 1934's Children of the Poor and 1936's The Hunted, by John A. Lee
- The Duke of AlbanyScottish title of the future King James II of England
- Albanycapital city of New York, USA
- ORIGIN: May be an extension of St Alban's nameor 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).