Alby
Alby was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,208 among boys’ names; 105 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alby by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alby mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alby is “a male given name from Irish.”
Also “a female given name from Irish mainly used in Ireland.”
Anglicized from Irish Ailbhe, name of an Irish saint also anglicized as Albert, and name of heroines in Irish legend.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alby?
#7,208 among boys’ names, 2025
Alby entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #7,208 in 2025.
11 babies in 2025, the peak
Alby peaked in 2025, when 11 boys were given it, #7,208 among boys’ names. SSA did not list it in 2024.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 11 | #7,208 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 5 | #12,318 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 8 | #9,012 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 5 | #12,208 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 6 | #10,858 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 9 | #8,176 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 8 | #8,872 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 7 | #9,702 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 5 | #9,955 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,454 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | under 5 | 5 | #3,891 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 5 | #4,154 | |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,112 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,981 | under 5 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 5 | #4,192 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 6 | #3,394 | |
| 1882 | under 5 | 5 | #944 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Alby a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 105 Americans recorded as Alby, 14% are girls and 86% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Alby: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alby, and how old are they?
An estimated 72 Americans named Alby and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 313 people named Alby (125 women and girls, 188 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 44 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7.1 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 702 babies since 1880, Alby is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 55 babies (20%), again the third 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.
More about Alby and names like it
- Compare Alby and AlbieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAlby peaked in 2025.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Alby: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Alby.
- Names starting with AMost given first.