Alben

Last seen for boys in 2003 at #10,894

Peak · boys
1938 · 19 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
204
since 1915

Alben over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Alben has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201920peak #1,559, 1938boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1963#4,0485
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First appearance
1915

The first year at least five boys were named Alben! It came in at #3,825, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1915–1917, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Alben is popular in 1920

No state had 5 or more boys named Alben in 1920, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Alben
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2003
Rise & fade · boys
23 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1915
  • Peaked 1938 at #1,559 (19 births)
  • Births halved by 1940, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 58,376
  • Highest: 1 in 58,376 boys born in 1938 were named Alben (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 395,070 boys born in 2003 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 20.6% of all boys named Alben (42) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s14#2,882 (1918)#3,354
1920s42#2,967 (1920)#3,541
1930s42#1,559 (1938)#2,510
1940s26#2,225 (1949)#2,676
1950s37#2,438 (1950)#3,137
1960s17#3,356 (1961)#3,812
1970s0——
1980s5#7,905 (1989)#7,905
1990s11#7,178 (1990)#8,097
2000s10#10,349 (2000)#10,622

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.

Alben in 1920

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#2,967
9 births · 1 in 118,262 boys

Top boys' names in 1920

  1. #1John56,913
  2. #2William50,146
  3. #3Robert48,679
  4. #4James47,908
  5. #5Charles28,309
  6. #6George26,891
  7. #7Joseph25,587
  8. #8Edward20,097
  9. #9Frank16,430
  10. #10Richard15,010
  11. #2,967Alben9
More about 1920

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1,064,356 boys got a published name in 1920; 1 in 118,262 of them was named Alben, which outranked 40.5% of the 4,989 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alben
  1. #2,765Winferd10
  2. #2,765Winnie10
  3. #2,765Yancy10
  4. #2,967Alben9
  5. #2,967Achille9
  6. #2,967Aggie9
  7. #2,967Algird9
  8. #3,208Ac8
  9. #3,208Achilles8
  10. #3,208Adelino8

Tied with 240 names at #2,967; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1919
Risers
  1. ↑ 960Harding#1,351 → #391
  2. ↑ 607Cameron#1,351 → #744
  3. ↑ 566Hardin#1,531 → #965
  4. ↑ 392Laurel#1,321 → #929
  5. ↑ 368Terrence#1,297 → #929
Fallers
  1. ↓ 789Pershing#593 → #1,382
  2. ↓ 580Woodroe#877 → #1,457
  3. ↓ 385Quinten#867 → #1,252
  4. ↓ 383Orvel#890 → #1,273
  5. ↓ 373Rexford#927 → #1,300

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1920 →