girls:
7.1k births since 1880
#1943 (66th percentile)
boys:
108 births since 1892
#4478 (2nd percentile)
overall:
7.2k births since 1880
#3182 (59th percentile)
The name Alba is the #3,182 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,195 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 58.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,943 (66.0% percentile) for all time with 7,087 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,478 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 108 births since 1892.
Alba has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1892 for boys). Birth data for Alba is available in 134 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (133 years for girls and 16 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Alba has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Alba reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 20.1% percentile (ranked #748) with 108 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 110 births per million (ranked 20.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2005, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Alba is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #765 (19.2% percentile) with 107 births per million.
For boys, Alba reached its peak popularity in 1913, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #404) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1892, with 53 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1981.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alba".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Alba. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.4% confident that Alba is pronounced as AL-buh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHL-buh, at 39.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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