Alba
Alba is a girl's name that peaked in 2024, when it was the 1,169th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,261st. About 5,900 Albas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Alba boys named Alba
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,579
- Estimated living today
- 5,900
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 1,169th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,261st
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 7,471 / 108
How old the living Albas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,579 babies given the name since 1880, about 5,900 are alive — 78 in every hundred. Roughly 2,700 of them are children and 450 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Spanish
From Spanish Alba, ultimately from the same origin as Etymology 1 and 2.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Albas
- Alba Flores (born 1986)Spanish actress
- Alba Rohrwacher (born 1979)Italian actress
- Alba Baptista (born 1997)Portuguese actress
- Alba August (born 1993)Swedish actress, born 1993
- Alba Torrens (born 1989)Spanish basketball player
- Alba de Céspedes (1911–1997)Cuban-Italian writer and poet
- Alba Ribas Benaiges (born 1988)Spanish film actress
- Alba Redondo (born 1996)Spanish footballer
People named Alba with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Alba is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Alba is most concentrated in New York (3.3×), California (3.0×), Texas (2.2×), Arizona (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular girls’ names the year Alba peaked:
Alba elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain girls | Alba | 69,388 | 6th |
| France girls | Alba | 17,050 | 4th |
| England and Wales girls | Alba | 4,102 | 95th |
| Italy girls | Alba | 3,070 | — |
| Belgium girls | Alba | 1,534 | 20th |
| Switzerland girls | Alba | 1,000 | 53rd |
| Denmark girls | Alba | 830 | 39th |
| Scotland girls | Alba | 655 | 62nd |
| Sweden girls | Alba | 567 | 33rd |
| Norway girls | Alba | 557 | 105th |
| Ireland girls | Alba | 155 | 213th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Alba | 53 | 177th |
| England and Wales boys | Alba | 29 | 2,320th |
| Poland girls | Alba | 18 birth registrations | 463rd |
| Scotland boys | Alba | 3 | 720th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Alba: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Alba | 489 | 0.039% | 121st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Alba | 472 | 0.108% | 9th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Alba | 37 | 0.057% | 49th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Alba | 2 | 0.054% | 4th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Alba is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.13% of children were given it – 137 of them.
Alba: rank by region
In 2025, Alba was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Alba | 60 | 76 |
| Wallonia | Alba | 7 | 143 |
| Brussels | Alba | 11 | 34 |
In 2024, Alba was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cantabria | Alba | 8 | 21 |
In 2023, Alba was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Alba | 8 | 1 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Alba appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (5th), Province of Luxembourg (6th), Province of Liège (7th), Province of Flemish Brabant (8th), Province of Walloon Brabant (10th), Brussels-Capital Region (11th), Province of Namur (13th), Province of Antwerp (67th), Province of Limburg (94th), Province of West Flanders (138th) and Province of East Flanders (140th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Alba by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 40 | 229th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Alba among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Alba | 96 | 137 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Alba lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 126,045 women called Alba were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pontevedra | Alba | 3,367 | 6.865 | 28 |
| Coruña, A | Alba | 3,897 | 6.594 | 25 |
| Palencia | Alba | 519 | 6.496 | 26 |
| Lleida | Alba | 1,374 | 6.168 | 22 |
| Burgos | Alba | 1,103 | 6.088 | 25 |
| Lugo | Alba | 1,015 | 6.049 | 28 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Alba against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.