Alben
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Alben has been given to 204 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1938, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Alben, 2003
1 in 760,000
Alben over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Alben?
Alben had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2003
- 1 in 760,000
- 5 of 3,801,425 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 395,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2003
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 526,991 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Alben sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2003 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 526,991 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alben. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Albens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Alben was born before 1942 — so the typical Alben is around 83 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 20.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 12.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 80
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 20.6% of all recorded uses (42).
Is Alben 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 1938 (19)
- Years since peak
- 87
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 45.5% average annual change
Spellings of Alben
Alben is not the most common spelling — Albert is, with 17.9% against Alben'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.
Where Alben is used
Across 1910–2025, Alben was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 135,786 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Kentucky1 in 100,000
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. Alben has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Alben around the world
Where Alben 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 & Wales2019–2023#4,992in 2023
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Alben by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Alben
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Alben
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.