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Albin

#6,156 in 2025Boys' name

White

Albin has been given to 4,431 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #6,156 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1919, with 157 recorded.

Babies named Albin, 2025

1 in 237,000

Albin over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Albin: meaning, origin, and history

White

Latin

What Albin means

Albin means “white”, associated with albus.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Early saints' name, from the Roman cognomen Albīnus, derivative of Latin albus (“white”). In the case of individuals from Germanic nations, partly also from Germanic (cf. Albwin (literally “elf friend”)), of which Alvin is the native English form.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Albin is used in English, Faroese, German, Slovene and Swedish. Its origins include Latin.

Albin comes through Latin albus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alvin.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovene, Albin is pronounced /albíːn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,431 boys were recorded with the name Albin between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 157 in 1919; its best national rank was #364 in 1891.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,990 in 2020 to #6,156 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,894 in 2015 to #6,156 in 2025.

How common is Albin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,156
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Albin 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Albin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Albins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Albin was born before 1926 — so the typical Albin is around 99 today.

Median birth year
1926
About 99 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
25.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,054
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 25.6% of all recorded uses (1,136).

Is Albin 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
+4,842
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−166
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,262
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.74×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.9%
Peak was 1919 (157)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#364
1891

Spellings of Albin

Albin is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 25.5% against Albin's 0.31%.

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 Albin is used

Across 1910–2025, Albin was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 58,918 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 16,667
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 20,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 25,000
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 25,000
  5. 5Nebraska1 in 25,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 33,333
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  8. 8Connecticut1 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. Albin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Albin around the world

Where Albin 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
    1999–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2006–2006
    #596
    in 2006
  • France
    1900–2025
    #456
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2021
    #2,792
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1951–1972
    #479
    in 1972

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Notable people named Albin

People whose public names include Albin, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Albin in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Albin. Linked forms have their own page here.

AlbinoBineAlbynAlbinasAlbinus

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Albin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,156
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 166
Best rank ever
#364
1891
Peak year
1919
157 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,431
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Albin

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

TobinAlbanRubinAlbionAlbieKorbinAlbinoJabinRobinAlbaroAlbusAlbiAlbertoRobbinCorbinSabinAlbenAlbyOrbinZubinAlbaraaAlbertaAlberthReubin

Names with a curve like Albin

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Albin, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AloysiusWaldoJuniusFayMertonFlorianElzieEvertJewellUrbanCasimirEllsworth

Sibling names for Albin

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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