Meaning not yet researched.
Alba: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 177 in 2025. Its best rank was #740 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #740 in 1880; #1,261 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alba in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,261 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #740.
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Alba: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 177 girls in 2025. Peak: #740 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 205 (2024).
In 2025, 177 US girls were named Alba, making it the 1,261st most common girls’ name of the year, down 91 places from #1,170 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 205 girls named Alba in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #740, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 205, in 2024. For comparison, it was #1,454 in 2015 and #1,720 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alba in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 7,579 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,390 babies named Alba.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,714 US girls were named Alba; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 205. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,081 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alba ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #866 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Albina (5,006 babies since 1880) and Elba (3,706 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Albana are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Aragonese, Catalan, Galician, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Albana (76).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Alba in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 18 | #866 | #2,084 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #878 | #835 |
| California | 33 | #880 | #1,340 |
| Arizona | 6 | #912 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #913 | — |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,044 | #1,058 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,118 | #1,648 |
| Texas | 20 | #1,269 | #1,270 |
| New York | 10 | #1,314 | #1,017 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 177 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 2024 | 205 | #1,170 | — | — |
| 2023 | 188 | #1,238 | — | — |
| 2022 | 198 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 2021 | 193 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 2020 | 188 | #1,214 | — | — |
| 2019 | 161 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 2018 | 132 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 2017 | 148 | #1,495 | — | — |
| 2016 | 124 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 2015 | 158 | #1,454 | — | — |
| 2014 | 149 | #1,493 | — | — |
| 2013 | 146 | #1,510 | — | — |
| 2012 | 133 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 2011 | 124 | #1,690 | — | — |
| 2010 | 115 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,617 | — | — |
| 2008 | 84 | #2,319 | — | — |
| 2007 | 77 | #2,433 | — | — |
| 2006 | 85 | #2,248 | — | — |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,671 | — | — |
| 2004 | 63 | #2,622 | — | — |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,840 | — | — |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,381 | — | — |
| 2001 | 75 | #2,171 | — | — |
| 2000 | 80 | #2,056 | — | — |
| 1999 | 54 | #2,610 | — | — |
| 1998 | 59 | #2,371 | — | — |
| 1997 | 77 | #1,900 | — | — |
| 1996 | 78 | #1,864 | — | — |
| 1995 | 75 | #1,863 | — | — |
| 1994 | 79 | #1,810 | — | — |
| 1993 | 97 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 1992 | 93 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 1991 | 86 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 1990 | 113 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 1989 | 137 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 1988 | 117 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 1987 | 74 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 1986 | 65 | #1,770 | — | — |
| 1985 | 63 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 1984 | 81 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 1983 | 61 | #1,751 | — | — |
| 1982 | 80 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 1981 | 101 | #1,271 | 5 | #6,286 |
| 1980 | 59 | #1,833 | — | — |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,525 | — | — |
| 1978 | 35 | #2,474 | — | — |
| 1977 | 51 | #1,922 | — | — |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,292 | — | — |
| 1975 | 40 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 1974 | 40 | #2,066 | — | — |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,566 | — | — |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,222 | — | — |
| 1971 | 31 | #2,428 | — | — |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,779 | — | — |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,210 | — | — |
| 1968 | 40 | #1,887 | — | — |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,212 | — | — |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,519 | — | — |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,464 | — | — |
| 1964 | 40 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 1963 | 39 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,464 | — | — |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,543 | — | — |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 1959 | 32 | #1,986 | — | — |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,872 | — | — |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,005 | — | — |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,803 | — | — |
| 1954 | 39 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 1952 | 31 | #1,781 | 5 | #3,742 |
| 1951 | 34 | #1,638 | — | — |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,514 | — | — |
| 1948 | 22 | #2,071 | — | — |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,355 | — | — |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,430 | — | — |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,744 | — | — |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,403 | — | — |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,861 | 5 | #3,547 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,047 | — | — |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,273 | — | — |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 1937 | 26 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,950 | — | — |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 1934 | 27 | #1,409 | 6 | #3,283 |
| 1933 | 32 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1932 | 34 | #1,238 | — | — |
| 1931 | 43 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 1930 | 53 | #1,014 | 6 | #3,599 |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1928 | 47 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 1927 | 48 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 1926 | 48 | #1,079 | 6 | #3,712 |
| 1925 | 51 | #1,064 | 9 | #2,937 |
| 1924 | 50 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1923 | 62 | #928 | 9 | #2,953 |
| 1922 | 57 | #989 | 5 | #4,318 |
| 1921 | 51 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1920 | 44 | #1,132 | 8 | #3,213 |
| 1919 | 55 | #954 | 5 | #4,170 |
| 1918 | 53 | #989 | 7 | #3,375 |
| 1917 | 58 | #904 | 9 | #2,733 |
| 1916 | 51 | #959 | — | — |
| 1915 | 79 | #747 | 7 | #3,085 |
| 1914 | 51 | #817 | — | — |
| 1913 | 38 | #853 | 9 | #1,949 |
| 1912 | 37 | #820 | — | — |
| 1911 | 17 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 1910 | 22 | #915 | — | — |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,290 | — | — |
| 1908 | 14 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 1907 | 11 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1906 | 17 | #896 | — | — |
| 1905 | 10 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 1896 | 10 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1895 | 11 | #987 | — | — |
| 1894 | 10 | #998 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,441 | — | — |
| 1892 | — | — | 7 | #861 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,214 | — | — |
| 1889 | 10 | #839 | — | — |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1887 | 7 | #937 | — | — |
| 1881 | 5 | #831 | — | — |
| 1880 | 6 | #740 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).