Albino — boys' name
1,682 babies named Albino in U.S. Social Security records since 1897, with the highest year being 1927. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
16% of everyone ever named Albino was born in this single decade.
37 babies were named Albino in 1927 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Albino
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,682 babies named Albino between 1897 and 2021, spanning 125 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Albino currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1927, when 37 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Albino performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 272 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Albino shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 513 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Mexico and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Albino in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Albino in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,682 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Albino at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Albino popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1897
- Peak year (1927)
- 37
- Annual births at peak — across 125 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
1,682 total births across 125 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1927 with 37 births in a single year.
Albino by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 272 births that decade — 16% of Albino's all-time total
Albino decade highlights
- Peak decade 272 births
- Runner-up 186 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Albino's strongest decade
272 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 16% of all-time use.
Albino by state
Where Albino concentrates geographically — total births since 1897
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 513 | 30.5% |
| #2 | New Mexico | | 82 | 4.9% |
| #3 | California | | 79 | 4.7% |
| #4 | New York | | 5 | 0.3% |
513 of 1,682 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 30.5% of nationwide
- New Mexico 4.9% of nationwide
- California 4.7% of nationwide
- New York 0.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 30.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1897–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.