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Albus

#8,939 in 2025Boys' name

White, bright

Albus has been given to 89 babies in the U.S. since 2016. In 2025 it ranked #8,939 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Albus, 2025

1 in 414,000

Albus over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Albus: meaning, origin, and history

White, bright

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Albus means

Albus means “white, bright”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 89 boys were recorded with the name Albus between 2016 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2020; its best national rank was #5,457 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,457 in 2020 to #8,939 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.

How common is Albus?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,939
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Albus 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Albus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Albuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Albus was born before 2020 — so the typical Albus is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
58.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
89
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 58.4% of all recorded uses (52).

Is Albus 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
+994
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,482
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2020 (16)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,457
2020

Spellings of Albus

Albus is not the most common spelling — Angus is, with 26.3% against Albus's 0.35%.

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.

Albus around the world

Where Albus 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
    2015–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    2024–2024
    #5,269
    in 2024

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.

Albus by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,939
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,482
Best rank ever
#5,457
2020
Peak year
2020
16 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
89
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Albus

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

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Sibling names for Albus

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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