boys:
204 births since 1915
#4382 (4th percentile)
overall:
204 births since 1915
#7535 (3rd percentile)
The name Alben is the #7,535 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 204 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 2.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,382 (4.4% percentile) for all time with 204 births since 1915.
Alben first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (first recorded for boys in 1915). Birth data for Alben is available in 28 out of the 89 years between 1915 and 2003. 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, Alben reached its peak popularity in 1938, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #510) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1938, with 17 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2003.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alben".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Alben. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.2% confident that Alben is pronounced as AL-buhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AL-behn, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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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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