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Alba vs Albeiro

American parents have registered 7,579 Albas since 1880, against 147 Albeiros. Alba is still ahead, with 177 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alba against Albeiro, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alba Albeiro

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

Alba has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Alba had 70 and Albeiro had 29.

Side by side

  Alba Albeiro
Total US births 7,579147
Most in one year 20529
Babies in 2025 177under 5
Estimated living today 5,900150
Median age today 2112
Peak year 20242009
Best rank 1,169th girls3,639th boys
Rank in 2025 1,261stunranked
First recorded 18802008
Girls / boys 7,471 / 1080 / 147

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 Albas alive today are over 21; half the Albeiros are over 12. That is 9 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: Alba and Albeiro.