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How popular is “Alba” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alba” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Alba” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Alba” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Alba” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Alba” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Alba” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alba” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 6 0.000029779 6 100%
1881 5 0.000025949 5 100%
1887 7 0.000028295 7 100%
1888 7 0.000023374 7 100%
1889 10 0.000034609 10 100%
1891 6 0.00002093 6 100%
1892 7 0.000020935 7 -100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 100%
1894 10 0.000029526 10 100%
1895 11 0.000031337 11 100%
1896 10 0.000027973 10 100%
1897 6 0.000017293 6 100%
1898 6 0.000015729 6 100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 100%
1904 13 0.000032219 13 100%
1905 10 0.000023589 10 100%
1906 17 0.000039678 17 100%
1907 11 0.000023636 11 100%
1908 14 0.00002865 14 100%
1909 11 0.000021517 11 100%
1910 22 0.000037243 22 100%
1911 17 0.000026386 17 100%
1912 37 0.000037447 37 100%
1913 47 0.000041333 38 9 62%
1914 51 0.000036008 51 100%
1915 86 0.000046932 79 7 84%
1916 51 0.000026365 51 100%
1917 67 0.000033387 58 9 73%
1918 60 0.000027636 53 7 77%
1919 60 0.000028433 55 5 83%
1920 52 0.000022982 44 8 69%
1921 51 0.000021846 51 100%
1922 62 0.000027084 57 5 84%
1923 71 0.000030836 62 9 75%
1924 50 0.000020994 50 100%
1925 60 0.000025715 51 9 70%
1926 54 0.00002352 48 6 78%
1927 48 0.000020695 48 100%
1928 47 0.000020788 47 100%
1929 33 0.000015054 33 100%
1930 59 0.000026537 53 6 80%
1931 43 0.000020433 43 100%
1932 34 0.000016104 34 100%
1933 32 0.000016004 32 100%
1934 33 0.00001589 27 6 64%
1935 23 0.000011005 23 100%
1936 16 0.000007701 16 100%
1937 26 0.000012203 26 100%
1938 24 0.000010847 24 100%
1939 23 0.000010438 23 100%
1940 25 0.000010857 25 100%
1941 14 0.000005746 14 100%
1942 18 0.000006589 18 100%
1943 16 0.000005669 11 5 38%
1944 14 0.000005204 14 100%
1945 11 0.000004146 11 100%
1946 9 0.000002817 9 100%
1947 18 0.000004997 18 100%
1948 22 0.000006372 22 100%
1949 16 0.000004591 16 100%
1950 30 0.000008563 30 100%
1951 34 0.00000923 34 100%
1952 36 0.000009479 31 5 72%
1953 31 0.000008044 31 100%
1954 39 0.000009797 39 100%
1955 34 0.000008468 34 100%
1956 29 0.000007034 29 100%
1957 26 0.000006187 26 100%
1958 34 0.000008225 34 100%
1959 32 0.000007696 32 100%
1960 30 0.000007222 30 100%
1961 23 0.000005552 23 100%
1962 24 0.000005947 24 100%
1963 39 0.000009853 39 100%
1964 40 0.000010289 40 100%
1965 24 0.00000662 24 100%
1966 23 0.000006617 23 100%
1967 29 0.000008542 29 100%
1968 40 0.00001184 40 100%
1969 33 0.000009496 33 100%
1970 25 0.000006932 25 100%
1971 31 0.000009032 31 100%
1972 34 0.000010818 34 100%
1973 28 0.000009281 28 100%
1974 40 0.000013158 40 100%
1975 40 0.000013248 40 100%
1976 36 0.000011864 36 100%
1977 51 0.000016055 51 100%
1978 35 0.000011028 35 100%
1979 36 0.000010821 36 100%
1980 59 0.000017129 59 100%
1981 106 0.000030641 101 5 91%
1982 80 0.000022805 80 100%
1983 61 0.000017613 61 100%
1984 81 0.000023217 81 100%
1985 63 0.000017651 63 100%
1986 65 0.000018273 65 100%
1987 74 0.000020524 74 100%
1988 117 0.000031664 117 100%
1989 137 0.000035636 137 100%
1990 113 0.00002859 113 100%
1991 86 0.000022078 86 100%
1992 93 0.000024211 93 100%
1993 97 0.000025728 97 100%
1994 79 0.00002125 79 100%
1995 75 0.00002048 75 100%
1996 78 0.000021386 78 100%
1997 77 0.000021237 77 100%
1998 59 0.00001604 59 100%
1999 54 0.000014619 54 100%
2000 80 0.000021165 80 100%
2001 75 0.000020035 75 100%
2002 67 0.000017923 67 100%
2003 54 0.000014202 54 100%
2004 63 0.000016488 63 100%
2005 63 0.000016386 63 100%
2006 85 0.000021485 85 100%
2007 77 0.000019261 77 100%
2008 84 0.00002137 84 100%
2009 70 0.000018324 70 100%
2010 115 0.000031117 115 100%
2011 124 0.0000339 124 100%
2012 133 0.000036365 133 100%
2013 146 0.000040048 146 100%
2014 149 0.000040201 149 100%
2015 158 0.000042692 158 100%
2016 124 0.000033799 124 100%
2017 148 0.000041385 148 100%
2018 132 0.000037544 132 100%
2019 161 0.000046385 161 100%
2020 188 0.000056278 188 100%
2021 193 0.000056967 193 100%
2022 197 0.00005823 197 100%
2023 188 0.000056777 188 100%
2024 204 0.000061289 204 100%

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