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Albion

#8,269 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Albion has been given to 724 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #8,269 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Albion, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Albion: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Albion means

Albion is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Albion is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 724 boys were recorded with the name Albion between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1921; its best national rank was #706 in 1881.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,631 in 2020 to #8,269 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,766 in 2015 to #8,269 in 2025.

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 Albion?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,269
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Albion 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Albion. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Albions were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Albion was born before 1934 — so the typical Albion is around 91 today.

Median birth year
1934
About 91 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
19.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
304
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 19.3% of all recorded uses (140).

Is Albion 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
+4,156
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,638
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+497
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
34.6%
Peak was 1921 (26)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#706
1881

Spellings of Albion

Albion is not the most common spelling — Alvin is, with 67.1% against Albion's 0.30%.

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 Albion is used

Across 1910–2025, Albion was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 539,303 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 50,000
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in —
  3. 3New 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. Albion has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Albion around the world

Where Albion 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
    #1,798
    in 2025
  • France
    2001–2022
    #6,730
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1961–2009
    #708
    in 2009

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.

Albion by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,269
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,638
Best rank ever
#706
1881
Peak year
1921
26 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
724
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Albion

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

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Sibling names for Albion

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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