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Balbina

Girls' name

Feminine form of Balbinus

Balbina has been given to 325 babies in the U.S. since 1896. 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 1915, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Balbina, 2023

1 in 663,000

Balbina over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Balbina: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Balbinus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Balbina means

Balbina is a feminine form of Balbinus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Balbina is used in Spanish, Portuguese (Rare), Polish (Rare), Italian (Rare) and Ancient Roman.

Another recorded pronunciation is /bal.ˈβi.na/ and /bal.ˈbi.na/ for Balbina.

Origin, language, and formation

Balbina is used in Italian and Polish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Balbinus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Balbina is pronounced /balˈbi.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 325 girls were recorded with the name Balbina between 1896 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,398 in 1897.

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 Balbina?

Balbina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Balbina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Balbina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Balbinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Balbina was born before 1924 — so the typical Balbina is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
33.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
37
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1920s — 33.2% of all recorded uses (108).

Is Balbina 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 1915 (18)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,398
1897

Spellings of Balbina

Balbina is not the most common spelling — Alaina is, with 35.2% against Balbina's 0.23%.

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 Balbina is used

Across 1910–2025, Balbina was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,015,683 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Balbina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Balbina around the world

Where Balbina 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.

  • France
    1924–1967
    #1,977
    in 1967

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Balbina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,398
1897
Peak year
1915
18 that year
First recorded
1896
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
325
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Balbina

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

BalvinaKarlinaSophinaBaleriaAllainaAnalinaFlorinaKaylinaLorainaJaylinaBaleighAvalinaMacrinaJalainaPaolinaMerlinaAbelinaEmalinaEllainaBalindaSukainaEmilinaArminaZelina

Sibling names for Balbina

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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