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Albany vs Albertha

American parents have registered 5,145 Alberthas since 1880, against 730 Albanys. But in 2025 it was Albany that was commoner, 11 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Albany against Albertha, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Albany Albertha

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 135 years in which either name was published, Albertha for 95 years and Albany for 40 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Albany Albertha
Total US births 7305,145
Most in one year 30147
Babies in 2025 11under 5
Estimated living today 7201,300
Median age today 1976
Peak year 20071922
Best rank 4,808th girls593rd girls
Rank in 2025 8,860thunranked
First recorded 19261882
Girls / boys 725 / 55,145 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Alberthas alive today are over 76; half the Albanys are over 19. That is 57 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Albany and Albertha.