Albin
The boy's name Albin has been in the national records since 1880, with 4,431 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 6,143rd. About 1,200 Albins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 52.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Albin
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,431
- Estimated living today
- 1,200
- Median age today
- 52
- Peak year
- 1919
- Best rank
- 479th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,143rd
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Albins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,431 babies given the name since 1880, about 1,200 are alive — 26 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1973 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 Latin
Early saints' name, from the Roman cognomen Albīnus, derivative of Latin albus (“white”). In the case of individuals from Germanic nations, partly also from Germanic (cf.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Albins
- Albin Kurti (born 1975)Prime Minister of Kosovo since 2021
- Albin Pelak (born 1981)Bosnian association football player
- Albin Ekdal (born 1989)Swedish association football player
- Per Albin Hansson (1885–1946)Swedish politician, Prime Minister of Sweden between 1932–1936 and 1936–1946
- Albin Stenroos (1889–1971)Finnish long distance runner
- Albin Lermusiaux (1874–1940)French athlete
- Hanns Albin Rauter (1895–1949)German general
- Albin Vidović (1943–2018)Croatian handball player
People named Albin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Albin is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Albin is most concentrated in Minnesota (6.0×), Wisconsin (4.8×), Nebraska (4.0×), Illinois (3.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1919
The most popular boys’ names the year Albin peaked:
Albin elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden boys | Albin | 14,168 | 11th |
| France boys | Albin | 5,945 | 375th |
| Switzerland boys | Albin | 399 | 156th |
| England and Wales boys | Albin | 102 | 2,097th |
| Belgium boys | Albin | 80 | 1,028th |
| Poland boys | Albin | 78 birth registrations | 227th |
| Ireland boys | Albin | 3 | 596th |
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.
Albin: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Albin | 315 | 0.025% | 120th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Albin | 76 | 0.017% | 195th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Albin | 7 | 0.011% | 117th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Albin | 1 | 0.027% | 22nd |
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, Albin is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.03% of children were given it – 36 of them.
Albin: rank by region
In 2025, Albin was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Albin | 461 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – 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.
Albin 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 boys | Albin | 413 | 1,545 |
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.
Related names
Albin 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.