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Albano

Boys' name

English equivalent of Alban

Albano has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1987. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1987, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Albano, 1987

1 in 721,000

Albano 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Albano: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Alban

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Albano means

Albano is a English equivalent of Alban.

Origin, language, and formation

Albano is used in Albanian, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alban.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Albano is pronounced /alˈba.no/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Albano between 1987 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1987; its best national rank was #6,969 in 1987.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Albano?

Albano had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1987
1 in 721,000
5 of 3,605,072 births
Among boys only
1 in 373,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1987
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
499,770 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Albano 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 1987 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 499,770 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Albano. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Albanos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Albano was born before 1987 — so the typical Albano is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Albano 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1987 (5)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#6,969
1987

Spellings of Albano

Albano is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 74.4% against Albano's <0.01%.

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.

Albano around the world

Where Albano 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
    2001–2001
    #3,134
    in 2001
  • France
    1928–2022
    #4,754
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1966–1974
    #455
    in 1974

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

Albano by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,969
1987
Peak year
1987
5 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Albano

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

AlborzAlbanyAlburnJianoSolanoAvianoAlbieryKeyanoAcianoAlbierisAlbeeAlbieriAlbertisAlbericoAlianoIvanoCianoAlbaraMpanoCasianoAlberticoCyranoAlbusRossano

Sibling names for Albano

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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