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How popular is “Albany” in the USA?

Number of people named “Albany” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Albany” 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 “Albany” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Albany” by birth year

This chart shows how “Albany” 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
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 100%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 100%
1987 13 0.000003605 13 100%
1988 16 0.00000433 16 100%
1990 15 0.000003795 15 100%
1991 19 0.000004878 19 100%
1992 11 0.000002864 11 100%
1993 16 0.000004244 16 100%
1994 15 0.000004035 15 100%
1995 17 0.000004642 17 100%
1996 9 0.000002468 9 100%
1997 23 0.000006344 23 100%
1998 29 0.000007884 29 100%
1999 22 0.000005956 22 100%
2000 24 0.000006349 24 100%
2001 21 0.00000561 21 100%
2002 26 0.000006955 26 100%
2003 18 0.000004734 18 100%
2004 17 0.000004449 17 100%
2005 19 0.000004942 19 100%
2006 26 0.000006572 26 100%
2007 30 0.000007504 30 100%
2008 26 0.000006615 26 100%
2009 23 0.000006021 23 100%
2010 25 0.000006765 25 100%
2011 24 0.000006561 24 100%
2012 17 0.000004648 17 100%
2013 19 0.000005212 19 100%
2014 28 0.000007555 28 100%
2015 22 0.000005944 22 100%
2016 20 0.000005452 20 100%
2017 25 0.000006991 25 100%
2018 18 0.00000512 18 100%
2019 15 0.000004322 15 100%
2020 13 0.000003892 13 100%
2021 9 0.000002656 9 100%
2022 9 0.00000266 9 100%
2023 7 0.000002114 7 100%
2024 12 0.000003605 12 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Albany:

  1. Alban
  2. Albana
  3. Albani
  4. Albanie
  5. Albano
  6. Albany (this page)
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  8. Albaraa
  9. Albaro
  10. Albee
  11. Albeiro