Albena
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Albena has been given to 397 babies in the U.S. since 1889. 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 1917, with 29 recorded.
Babies named Albena, 1932
1 in 422,000
Albena 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Albena?
Albena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1932, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1932
- 1 in 422,000
- 5 of 2,111,250 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1932
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 292,683 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Albena sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1932 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 292,683 children born in 1932 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Albena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Albenas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Albena was born before 1917 — so the typical Albena is around 108 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 45.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 88.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (182).
Is Albena 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 1917 (29)
- Years since peak
- 108
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.4% average annual change
Spellings of Albena
Albena is not the most common spelling — Lena is, with 15.8% against Albena's 0.04%.
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 Albena is used
Across 1910–2025, Albena was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,402,830 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Albena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Albena around the world
Where Albena 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 & Wales2019–2019#5,591in 2019
- France2016–2025#7,366in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Albena by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Albena
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Albena
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.