Alba vs Albirta
American parents have registered 7,579 Albas since 1880, against 190 Albirtas. Alba is still ahead, with 177 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Alba Albirta
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 137 years in which either name was published, Alba for 135 years and Albirta for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.
Side by side
| Alba | Albirta | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 7,579 | 190 |
| Most in one year | 205 | 10 |
| Babies in 2025 | 177 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 5,900 | 2 |
| Median age today | 21 | 91 |
| Peak year | 2024 | 1905 |
| Best rank | 1,169th girls | 1,238th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,261st | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1897 |
| Girls / boys | 7,471 / 108 | 190 / 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 Albirtas alive today are over 91; half the Albas are over 21. That is 70 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 Albirta.