Albion
Albion was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,269 among boys’ names; 724 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Albion by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Albion?
#8,269 among boys’ names, 2025
Albion rose from #8,766 in 2015 to #8,269 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 5.3 per million.
26 babies in 1921, the peak
Albion peaked in 1921, when 26 boys were given it, #1,475 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,269 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,425 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,285 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,429 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,631 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,660 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,354 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,328 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 8 | #8,851 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,766 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | #8,806 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,035 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,174 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 14 | #5,953 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,360 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,239 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,200 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,190 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,438 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,644 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,159 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | #10,939 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,059 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,604 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,402 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,730 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,294 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,738 | 2.7 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,602 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,515 | 3.8 |
| 1971 | 5 | #4,918 | 2.8 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,411 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 5 | #3,975 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,251 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,220 | 3.3 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,454 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,811 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,375 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,496 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,371 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 7 | #2,921 | 4.3 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,745 | 5.2 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,437 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,235 | 4.2 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,137 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,116 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,527 | 4.7 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,255 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,744 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,542 | 9.1 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,314 | 10.5 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,652 | 8.7 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,445 | 10.0 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,317 | 11.2 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,846 | 8.1 |
| 1927 | 9 | #2,913 | 8.0 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,187 | 12.6 |
| 1925 | 18 | #1,871 | 16.1 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,822 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,447 | 10.9 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,241 | 12.9 |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,475 | 23.6 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,052 | 15.0 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,388 | 12.2 |
| 1918 | 16 | #1,999 | 15.8 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,693 | 20.5 |
| 1916 | 17 | #1,771 | 19.1 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,184 | 14.1 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,688 | 21.4 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,365 | 29.3 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,888 | 18.6 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,441 | 30.5 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,111 | 45.1 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,234 | 37.8 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,080 | 42.6 |
| 1893 | 6 | #907 | 53.4 |
| 1892 | 6 | #957 | 49.2 |
| 1885 | 5 | #936 | 46.4 |
| 1884 | 7 | #765 | 61.2 |
| 1882 | 7 | #756 | 61.6 |
| 1881 | 7 | #706 | 69.5 |
| 1880 | 6 | #811 | 54.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Albion a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Albion has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 82 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Albion: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Albion, and how old are they?
An estimated 307 Americans named Albion and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (42% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 420 people named Albion (17 women and girls, 403 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 295 born in the U.S. The Census count is 42% 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.
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, Albion is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 29 babies (31%), the second 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 Albion
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 Albion and names like it
- Compare Albion and AlbinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sAlbion peaked in 1921.
- Maine’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Albion since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Albion.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Albion alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.