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Alban

#10,737 in 2025Boys' name

Resident of Alba

Alban has been given to 1,000 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #10,737 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Alban, 2025

1 in 553,000

Alban over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alban: meaning, origin, and history

Resident of Alba

Latin and Old Irish

What Alban means

Alban means “resident of Alba”, associated with Albānus.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Latin Albānus (“resident of Alba”) (a mountain region and an ancient city of Latium).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Alban (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Alban is used in English, Albanian, French, Swedish and Welsh. Its origins include Latin and Old Irish.

Alban comes through Latin Albānus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arban.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Alban is pronounced /al.bɑ̃/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,000 boys were recorded with the name Alban between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2012; its best national rank was #1,601 in 1915.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,102 in 2020 to #10,737 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,063 in 2015 to #10,737 in 2025.

How common is Alban?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,737
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alban sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alban. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Albans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alban was born before 1985 — so the typical Alban is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
15.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
657
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 15.0% of all recorded uses (150).

Is Alban rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−3,892
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,365
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,674
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.0%
Peak was 2012 (25)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
59.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,601
1915

Spellings of Alban

Alban is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 28.0% against Alban's 0.08%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Alban is used

Across 1910–2025, Alban was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 297,757 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Alban has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alban around the world

Where Alban ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #2,133
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2023–2023
    #614
    in 2023
  • France
    1900–2025
    #158
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–1970
    #540
    in 1970

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Alban by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,737
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,365
Best rank ever
#1,601
1915
Peak year
2012
25 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,000
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Alban

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Alban

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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