Albin
Albin was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,156 among boys’ names; 4,431 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,140 Americans named Albin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 22 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Albin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Albin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Albin is “a male given name from Latin.” Its etymology gives the sense “white” (albus).
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.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Albin?
#6,156 among boys’ names, 2025
Albin fell from #4,894 in 2015 to #6,156 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.9 to 8.2 per million.
157 babies in 1919, the peak
Albin peaked in 1919, when 157 boys were given it, #479 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,156 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 6 | #10,998 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,949 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,330 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 14 | #5,990 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,189 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,353 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,798 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,163 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 19 | #4,894 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (144)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 12 | #6,642 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,810 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,254 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,677 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,744 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,702 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,067 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 30 | #3,510 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,792 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,037 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,007 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 21 | #3,973 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,041 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,140 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,573 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,534 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,410 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,105 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,505 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,419 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,806 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,228 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,239 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,097 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,670 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,528 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,295 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,855 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,699 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,576 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,414 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,236 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,487 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,541 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,358 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,563 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,592 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,472 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,319 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,800 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,697 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,624 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 21 | #1,986 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,620 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,864 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,577 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 12 | #2,352 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,216 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,476 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 22 | #1,699 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 15 | #2,114 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 21 | #1,758 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 18 | #1,948 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 23 | #1,691 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 15 | #2,110 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 31 | #1,395 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 26 | #1,546 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 25 | #1,567 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 22 | #1,646 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 20 | #1,706 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,280 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 25 | #1,517 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 30 | #1,343 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,394 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 27 | #1,408 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 34 | #1,231 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 39 | #1,158 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 31 | #1,257 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 39 | #1,015 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 30 | #1,212 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 60 | #856 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 49 | #947 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 37 | #1,066 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 42 | #994 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 42 | #976 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 46 | #927 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 38 | #1,031 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 47 | #893 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 38 | #1,040 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 47 | #917 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 40 | #1,013 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 67 | #770 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 67 | #756 | 0.06 |
| 1930 | 67 | #782 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 72 | #742 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 83 | #694 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 93 | #659 | 0.08 |
| 1926 | 113 | #585 | 0.10 |
| 1925 | 115 | #585 | 0.10 |
| 1924 | 132 | #547 | 0.12 |
| 1923 | 134 | #524 | 0.12 |
| 1922 | 123 | #574 | 0.11 |
| 1921 | 137 | #532 | 0.12 |
| 1920 | 134 | #526 | 0.13 |
| 1919 | 157 | #479 | 0.16 |
| 1918 | 132 | #527 | 0.13 |
| 1917 | 138 | #490 | 0.15 |
| 1916 | 128 | #501 | 0.14 |
| 1915 | 139 | #466 | 0.16 |
| 1914 | 79 | #562 | 0.12 |
| 1913 | 56 | #586 | 0.11 |
| 1912 | 58 | #515 | 0.13 |
| 1911 | 23 | #644 | 0.10 |
| 1910 | 18 | #707 | 0.09 |
| 1909 | 17 | #654 | 0.10 |
| 1908 | 13 | #745 | 0.08 |
| 1907 | 13 | #736 | 0.09 |
| 1906 | 17 | #568 | 0.13 |
| 1905 | 12 | #699 | 0.09 |
| 1904 | 22 | #452 | 0.17 |
| 1903 | 12 | #656 | 0.10 |
| 1902 | 13 | #614 | 0.11 |
| 1901 | 9 | #729 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 17 | #603 | 0.11 |
| 1899 | 14 | #521 | 0.13 |
| 1898 | 12 | #635 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 17 | #473 | 0.15 |
| 1896 | 18 | #481 | 0.15 |
| 1895 | 14 | #556 | 0.12 |
| 1894 | 16 | #502 | 0.14 |
| 1893 | 17 | #448 | 0.15 |
| 1892 | 14 | #548 | 0.11 |
| 1891 | 22 | #364 | 0.22 |
| 1890 | 23 | #369 | 0.21 |
| 1889 | 14 | #499 | 0.13 |
| 1888 | 18 | #443 | 0.15 |
| 1887 | 12 | #517 | 0.12 |
| 1886 | 12 | #540 | 0.11 |
| 1885 | 16 | #463 | 0.15 |
| 1884 | 13 | #520 | 0.11 |
| 1883 | 7 | #721 | 0.07 |
| 1882 | 11 | #576 | 0.10 |
| 1881 | 5 | #866 | 0.05 |
| 1880 | 6 | #810 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Albin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Albin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 144 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Albin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Albin, and how old are they?
1,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 26% of the 4,431 Americans ever recorded as Albin. The median Albin alive today is 52 years old; half are between 22 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 1,902 people named Albin (21 women and girls, 1,881 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,303 born in the U.S. The Census count is 46% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 153 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 311 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 148 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 131 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 251 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 137 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Albin born?
The states with the most babies named Albin are Illinois, Pennsylvania and Minnesota, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 304 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 233 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Minnesota | 200 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| New York | 181 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Wisconsin | 173 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Michigan | 166 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Massachusetts | 150 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 120 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 89 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 54 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Albin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Albin is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Albin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,359 babies since 1880, Albin is the most given (70% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 29 babies (48%), again the most given.
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 Albin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Albin and names like it
- Compare Albin and AlbanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sAlbin peaked in 1919.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Albin since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Albin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Albin.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Albin alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.