Boys' name · since 2016
Albus
Albus has 89 recorded births since 2016 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2020 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #18,132 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #9,551 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 89
- born since 2016
- 2020s
- peak decade
Albus currently ranks #9551 among boys' names in America, with 89 babies recorded since 2016.
Albus has 89 recorded births among boys since 2016, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #9551 as of the latest data, more common than 31% of boys, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2016 to 2025.
- #18,132 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #9,551 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 89 born since 2016
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Albus ranks #18,132 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,551 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 89 born since 2016, peaking in the 2020s.
- #18,132 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #9,551 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 89
- born since 2016
- 2020s
- peak decade
Albus's 89 recorded births place it above 59.98% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Albus compares
89 24th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Albus's all-time total is 76% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Albus | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 89 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 16 | 34 | 22,252 |
Albus's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Albus's SSA record in two at 2020 and the more recent half accounts for 58% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 42%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2018, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2020 peak of 16, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Albus popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–2025
- Peak year (2020)
- 16
- Annual births at peak, across 10 years of records
Albus by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (52 births, 58% of the file).
2020s was Albus's strongest decade.
52 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 58% of all-time use.
Albus births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
37 births
- 2020s
2020s
52 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 52 births (58% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2016–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Albus draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.