Alby

Where Alby comes from

From place names in England. Variant: Albee.
— Wiktionary's entry for Alby
  • Irish
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    Debut at its peak, #943
    #943 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1883
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1999
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A habitational surname from Old English.
  • A male given name from Irish.
  • A female given name from Irish mainly used in Ireland.
Namesakes

No widely known Alby turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.