Alban
#10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · boys
- 1915 · 19 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,000since 1912
Alban over time
Rank among boys' names. Alban has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #6,832 | 12 |
| 2023 | #7,738 | 10 |
| 2022 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #5,562 | 16 |
| 2020 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #6,345 | 13 |
| 2017 | #8,140 | 9 |
| 2016 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | #5,058 | 18 |
| 2014 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | #4,003 | 25 |
| 2011 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #7,591 | 10 |
| 2009 | — | |
| 2008 | #6,070 | 14 |
| 2007 | #4,493 | 21 |
| 2006 | #7,427 | 10 |
| 2005 | #5,875 | 13 |
| 2004 | #3,735 | 24 |
| 2003 | #5,877 | 12 |
| 2002 | #5,725 | 12 |
| 2001 | #4,676 | 16 |
| 2000 | #5,297 | 13 |
| 1999 | #3,480 | 22 |
| 1998 | #4,197 | 16 |
| 1997 | #5,642 | 10 |
| 1996 | #4,185 | 15 |
| 1995 | #3,854 | 16 |
| 1994 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #4,227 | 14 |
| 1992 | #3,748 | 16 |
| 1991 | #4,476 | 12 |
| 1990 | #3,166 | 19 |
| 1989 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | #3,731 | 12 |
| 1986 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,961 | 7 |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1971 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #3,935 | 6 |
| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1966 | #3,948 | 5 |
| 1965 | #2,982 | 8 |
| 1964 | #3,282 | 7 |
| 1963 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | #3,041 | 8 |
| 1961 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,077 | 8 |
| 1959 | #3,619 | 6 |
| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,535 | 6 |
| 1955 | #3,886 | 5 |
| 1954 | #2,743 | 9 |
| 1953 | #2,905 | 8 |
| 1952 | #2,680 | 9 |
| 1951 | #3,364 | 6 |
| 1950 | #3,681 | 5 |
| 1949 | #2,606 | 9 |
| 1948 | #3,316 | 6 |
| 1947 | #3,733 | 5 |
| 1946 | #2,919 | 7 |
| 1945 | — | |
| 1944 | #3,430 | 5 |
| 1943 | #2,732 | 8 |
| 1942 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,133 | 6 |
| 1940 | #2,871 | 7 |
| 1939 | #2,050 | 12 |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | — | |
| 1936 | #2,184 | 11 |
| 1935 | #3,645 | 5 |
| 1934 | #3,277 | 6 |
| 1933 | #3,004 | 7 |
| 1932 | #3,361 | 6 |
| 1931 | #2,328 | 11 |
| 1930 | #2,178 | 13 |
| 1929 | #2,980 | 8 |
| 1928 | #2,659 | 10 |
| 1927 | #2,912 | 9 |
| 1926 | #1,911 | 17 |
| 1925 | #2,435 | 12 |
| 1924 | #1,839 | 19 |
| 1923 | #1,941 | 17 |
| 1922 | #2,040 | 16 |
| 1921 | #1,980 | 17 |
| 1920 | #2,765 | 10 |
| 1919 | #2,511 | 11 |
| 1918 | #2,398 | 12 |
| 1917 | #3,545 | 6 |
| 1916 | #2,259 | 12 |
| 1915 | #1,600 | 19 |
| 1914 | #1,772 | 13 |
| 1913 | #2,496 | 6 |
| 1912 | #2,544 | 5 |
| 1911 | — | |
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| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Alban! It came in at #2,544, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1937–1938, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Alban is popular in 1918
No state had 5 or more boys named Alban in 1918, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Alban
- 3,863 spots since 2024 (#6,832 → #10,695)
- 1,327 spots since 2020 (#12,022 → #10,695)
- 5,637 spots since 2015 (#5,058 → #10,695)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 1915 at #1,600 (19 births)
- Births halved by 1917, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 44,662 boys born in 1915 were named Alban (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 15.0% of all boys named Alban (150) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 84 | #1,600 (1915) | #2,391 |
| 1920s | 135 | #1,839 (1924) | #2,346 |
| 1930s | 71 | #2,050 (1939) | #2,753 |
| 1940s | 53 | #2,606 (1949) | #3,093 |
| 1950s | 54 | #2,680 (1952) | #3,302 |
| 1960s | 59 | #2,982 (1965) | #3,505 |
| 1970s | 24 | #3,963 (1972) | #4,476 |
| 1980s | 58 | #3,731 (1987) | #4,875 |
| 1990s | 150 | #3,166 (1990) | #4,243 |
| 2000s | 135 | #3,735 (2004) | #5,464 |
| 2010s | 122 | #4,003 (2012) | #7,107 |
| 2020s | 55 | #5,562 (2021) | #8,952 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alban in 1918
Top boys' names in 1918
More about 1918
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1,013,480 boys got a published name in 1918; 1 in 84,457 of them was named Alban, which outranked 50.2% of the 4,813 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,260Wood13
- #2,260Yoshito13
- #2,260Zane13
- #2,398Alban12
- #2,398Able12
- #2,398Agnes12
- #2,398Alson12
- #2,543Abron11
- #2,543Acey11
- #2,543Alison11
Tied with 144 names at #2,398; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.