Alban

boys:

982 births since 1912

#3610 (21st percentile)

overall:

982 births since 1912

#6757 (13th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Alban is the #6,757 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 982 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 12.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,610 (21.2% percentile) for all time with 982 births since 1912.

Alban first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (first recorded for boys in 1912). Birth data for Alban is available in 95 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023. 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.

For boys, Alban reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #489) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 22 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Alban ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 25.3% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alban".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
982
Peak Births
25
Peak Year
1915
First Recorded
1912
Peak Percentile
2.8%
Current Percentile
0.5%
Peak Rank
#489
Current Rank
#906
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Alban

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Alban. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 47.1% confident that Alban is pronounced as AL-buhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHL-buhn, at 35.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.

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47.1%
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35.3%
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AL-buhn (2 syllables)
47.1% confidence
AE1 L B AH0 N
AHL-buhn (2 syllables)
Verified
35.3% confidence
AA1 L B AH0 N
AWL-buhn (2 syllables)
17.6% confidence
AO1 L B AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 L B AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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