girls:
15 births since 1920
#5701 (0th percentile)
boys:
79 births since 1882
#4507 (2nd percentile)
overall:
94 births since 1882
#7645 (1st percentile)
The name Alby is the #7,645 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 94 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 1.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,507 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 79 births since 1882. For girls, it ranks #5,701 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 1920.
Alby first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for boys and 1920 for girls). Birth data for Alby is available in 16 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (13 years for boys and 3 years for girls). 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 Alby has been given predominantly to boys, with 84.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Alby were boys.
For boys, Alby reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #909) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 41 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Alby ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 6.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Alby reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #608) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alby".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Alby. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 76.3% confident that Alby is pronounced as AL-bee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHL-bee, at 13.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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