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Albie

#4,051 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Noble + bright, famous, through Albert

Albie has been given to 419 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #4,051 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 32 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 70% boys, 30% girls all-time.

Babies named Albie, 2025

1 in 128,000

Albie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Albie over time

In 2025, Albie went to 19% girls and 81% boys.

18952025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Albie: meaning, origin, and history

Noble + bright, famous, through Albert

Germanic languages

What Albie means

Albie belongs to the name family reached through Albie → Albert. Its meaning is “noble + bright, famous”.

Origin, language, and formation

Albie is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Albert.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 294 boys were recorded with the name Albie between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2023; its best national rank was #2,731 in 1916.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,599 in 2020 to #4,051 in 2025.

In the United States, 125 girls were recorded with the name Albie between 1895 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1918; its best national rank was #1,281 in 1899.

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 Albie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 128,000
26 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 65,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,051
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
88,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Albie 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 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Albie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Albies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Albie was born before 2018 — so the typical Albie is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
42.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
246
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 42.5% of all recorded uses (125).

Is Albie 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
−66
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,548
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
81.3%
Peak was 2023 (32)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,731
1916

Spellings of Albie

Albie is not the most common spelling — Alvin is, with 51.8% against Albie's 0.09%.

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 Albie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Albie was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,211,258 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New 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. Albie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Albie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Albie was most concentrated in Nebraska — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 232,495 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nebraska1 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. Albie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Albie around the world

Where Albie 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
    1996–2025
    #21
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2025
    #30
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2015–2025
    #55
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2014–2025
    #179
    in 2025
  • France
    2021–2021
    #5,984
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2013
    #389
    in 2013

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

Albie by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,051
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,548
Best rank ever
#2,731
1916
Peak year
2023
32 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
294
Count in 2025
26

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,275
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,281
1899
Peak year
1918
12 that year
First recorded
1895
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
125
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Albie

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

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Sibling names for Albie

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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