Alban
Alban was given to 6 boys in 2025, #10,737 among boys’ names; 1,000 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alban by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alban mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alban is “a male given name from Latin.” Its etymology gives the sense “resident of Alba” (Albānus).
From Latin Albānus (“resident of Alba”) (a mountain region and an ancient city of Latium).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alban?
#10,737 among boys’ names, 2025
Alban fell from #5,063 in 2015 to #10,737 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.4 to 3.5 per million.
25 babies in 2012, the peak
Alban peaked in 2012, when 25 boys were given it, #4,002 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,737 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,845 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,763 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,912 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,566 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,102 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,916 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,352 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,171 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,161 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,063 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,804 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,551 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,002 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,584 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,603 | 5.2 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,075 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,497 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,437 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 13 | #5,876 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 24 | #3,732 | 12.1 |
| 2003 | 12 | #5,880 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,729 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,676 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,295 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,477 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,201 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,646 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,181 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,855 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,453 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,227 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,744 | 8.0 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,479 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,162 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,166 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,788 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,728 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,854 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,160 | 3.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,494 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #4,968 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,318 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #3,966 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #4,916 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,728 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 6 | #3,946 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,677 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,563 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 5 | #3,953 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 8 | #2,984 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,287 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,052 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,043 | 3.9 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,079 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,620 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,539 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 5 | #3,890 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,745 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 8 | #2,905 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,679 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,367 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,693 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,605 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,321 | 3.4 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,737 | 2.7 |
| 1946 | 7 | #2,919 | 4.3 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,436 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,737 | 5.6 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,135 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,875 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,050 | 10.8 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,188 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,651 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,282 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,007 | 7.1 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,367 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,330 | 10.6 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,179 | 11.8 |
| 1929 | 8 | #2,982 | 7.4 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,661 | 9.0 |
| 1927 | 9 | #2,911 | 8.0 |
| 1926 | 17 | #1,911 | 15.3 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,435 | 10.8 |
| 1924 | 19 | #1,840 | 16.8 |
| 1923 | 17 | #1,941 | 15.5 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,041 | 14.7 |
| 1921 | 17 | #1,981 | 15.4 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,765 | 9.4 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,510 | 11.2 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,399 | 11.8 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,551 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,261 | 13.5 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,601 | 22.4 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,775 | 19.9 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,500 | 11.7 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,549 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Alban a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alban has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 97 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alban: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alban, and how old are they?
An estimated 643 Americans named Alban and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 15 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,154 people named Alban (13 women and girls, 1,141 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 626 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,359 babies since 1880, Alban is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 29 babies (21%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alban
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Domenic | 11,066 | |
| Constantino | 1,490 | |
| Marino | 2,231 | |
| Colman | 1,045 | |
| Elson | 1,333 | |
| Constantine | 6,720 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alban and names like it
- Compare Alban and AlbinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAlban peaked in 2012.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alban since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Alban: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Alban.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alban alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.