Balbina — girls' name
325 babies named Balbina in U.S. Social Security records since 1896, with the highest year being 1915. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
33% of everyone ever named Balbina was born in this single decade.
18 babies were named Balbina in 1915 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Balbina
The Social Security Administration has registered 325 babies named Balbina between 1896 and 2023, spanning 128 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Balbina currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1915, when 18 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Balbina performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 108 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Balbina shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Massachusetts. In total, SSA state-level files list Balbina in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Balbina 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 325 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.
Balbina at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Balbina popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1896
- Peak year (1915)
- 18
- Annual births at peak — across 128 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
325 total births across 128 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1915 with 18 births in a single year.
Balbina by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 108 births that decade — 33% of Balbina's all-time total
Balbina decade highlights
- Peak decade 108 births
- Runner-up 93 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Balbina's strongest decade
108 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 33% of all-time use.
Balbina by state
Where Balbina concentrates geographically — total births since 1896
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 11 | 3.4% |
| #2 | Massachusetts | | 5 | 1.5% |
11 of 325 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 3.4% of nationwide
- Massachusetts 1.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 3.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile 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, 1896–2023 (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.