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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Alba

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#1,261

down −91 places

2025 births

177

down −28 births

All-time births

7,471

2% of them in 2025

More common than

97%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2024
205 births
Best rank
#740
in 1880
First recorded
1880
#740 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1983
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
135 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 2024205#1,170Peak
  2. 2022198#1,220
  3. 2021193#1,221
  4. 2020188#1,214
  5. 2023188#1,238

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #740 in 1880 · peak births 205 in 2024

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 1% boys■ 99% girls

108 boys · 7,471 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Alba has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.