Alben

Last seen for boys in 2003 at #10,894

Peak · boys
1938 · 19 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
204
since 1915

Alben over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Alben has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201938peak #1,559, 1938boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2003#10,8945
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2000#10,3495
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1996#9,0155
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1990#7,1786
1989#7,9055
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1963#4,0485
1962#4,0335
1961#3,3567
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1958#3,9445
1957
1956#2,7989
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1953#3,1437
1952
1951#3,3646
1950#2,43810
1949#2,22512
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1944#2,8627
1943
1942#2,9407
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1939#2,15911
1938#1,55919
1937#3,1756
1936#3,1476
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1928#3,0768
1927
1926#4,2015
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1924
1923#3,1758
1922#4,3075
1921#3,5177
1920#2,9679
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1918#2,8829
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1915#3,8255
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First appearance
1915

The first year at least five boys were named Alben! It came in at #3,825, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1915–1917, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Alben
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2003
Rise & fade · boys
23 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1915
  • Peaked 1938 at #1,559 (19 births)
  • Births halved by 1940, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 58,376
  • Highest: 1 in 58,376 boys born in 1938 were named Alben (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 395,070 boys born in 2003 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 20.6% of all boys named Alben (42) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s14#2,882 (1918)#3,354
1920s42#2,967 (1920)#3,541
1930s42#1,559 (1938)#2,510
1940s26#2,225 (1949)#2,676
1950s37#2,438 (1950)#3,137
1960s17#3,356 (1961)#3,812
1970s0
1980s5#7,905 (1989)#7,905
1990s11#7,178 (1990)#8,097
2000s10#10,349 (2000)#10,622

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Alben in 1938

boys
#1,559
19 births · 1 in 58,376 boys

Top boys' names in 1938

  1. #1Robert62,271
  2. #2James59,102
  3. #3John50,517
  4. #4William42,433
  5. #5Richard34,385
  6. #6Charles31,151
  7. #7Donald26,677
  8. #8David22,994
  9. #9Thomas21,381
  10. #10Ronald20,295
  11. #1,559Alben19
More about 1938

boys

1,109,147 boys got a published name in 1938; 1 in 58,376 of them was named Alben, which outranked 61.4% of the 4,035 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alben
  1. #1,521Wellington20
  2. #1,521Wilfrid20
  3. #1,521Xavier20
  4. #1,559Alben19
  5. #1,559Agapito19
  6. #1,559Alvah19
  7. #1,559Ancil19
  8. #1,613Acie18
  9. #1,613Algie18
  10. #1,613Alpha18

Tied with 53 names at #1,559; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1937
Risers
  1. 1,314Dion#2,197#883
  2. 448Tex#1,212#764
  3. 425Lonny#1,233#808
  4. 401Gonzalo#1,180#779
  5. 383Lance#722#339
Fallers
  1. 741Worth#1,000#1,741
  2. 528Estel#869#1,397
  3. 492Milburn#845#1,337
  4. 412Lonzo#835#1,247
  5. 405Joy#932#1,337

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1938