Albion

Where Albion comes from

Albion hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1854
    Albion Woodbury Small born
    American sociologist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #809 among boys — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1881
    Peak, #706
    7 babies named Albion — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1883
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1999
    Albion Ademi born
    Finnish-Albanian footballer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Albion Woodbury Small · American sociologist, 1854–1926
  • Albion Ademi · Finnish-Albanian footballer, born 1999
  • Albion Parris · American politician, 1788–1857
  • Albion Avdijaj · Albanian association football player, born 1994
  • Albion Rrahmani · Kosovan association football player, born 2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.