Albena

Last seen for girls in 1932 at #4,411

Peak · girls
1889 · 6 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
397
since 1889

Albena over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Albena has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201908peak #1,147, 1889girls
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1927#2,69912
1926#3,8737
1925#2,28316
1924#2,30816
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1906#1,7276
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First appearance
1889

The first year at least five girls were named Albena! It came in at #1,147, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1890–1900, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Albena is popular in 1908

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Albena
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1932
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1889
  • Peaked 1889 at #1,147 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1890, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 27,859
  • Highest: 1 in 27,859 girls born in 1908 were named Albena (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 213,430 girls born in 1932 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,147 in 1889, was only 1 in 29,728 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1910s
  • 45.8% of all girls named Albena (182) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s6#1,147 (1889)#1,147
1890s15#1,332 (1891)#1,455
1900s43#1,203 (1908)#1,629
1910s182#1,352 (1912)#1,649
1920s141#1,646 (1922)#2,470
1930s10#4,411 (1932)#4,481

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Albena in 1908

girls
#1,203
12 births · 1 in 27,859 girls

Top girls' names in 1908

  1. #1Mary18,665
  2. #2Helen8,439
  3. #3Margaret6,976
  4. #4Ruth6,180
  5. #5Anna5,860
  6. #6Dorothy5,703
  7. #7Elizabeth4,904
  8. #8Mildred4,624
  9. #9Alice4,270
  10. #10Marie4,076
  11. #1,203Albena12
More about 1908

girls

334,312 girls got a published name in 1908; 1 in 27,859 of them was named Albena, which outranked 50.6% of the 2,434 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Albena
  1. #1,135Wava13
  2. #1,135Zelpha13
  3. #1,135Zena13
  4. #1,203Albena12
  5. #1,203Agness12
  6. #1,203Ailene12
  7. #1,203Aleen12
  8. #1,261Adda11
  9. #1,261Almira11
  10. #1,261Anniemae11

Tied with 57 names at #1,203; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1907
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,122Bernetta#2,061 → #939
  2. ↑ 1,122Nila#2,061 → #939
  3. ↑ 909Arnetta#1,821 → #912
  4. ↑ 703Edra#1,512 → #809
  5. ↑ 703Hertha#1,512 → #809
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,261Aurore#840 → #2,101
  2. ↓ 1,178Tula#923 → #2,101
  3. ↓ 1,111Oneida#990 → #2,101
  4. ↓ 1,043Walter#819 → #1,862
  5. ↓ 1,022Gayle#840 → #1,862

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

See the top 100 for 1908 →