Alba

Alba is the 2,665th most common surname in the United States, shared by 13,218 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 22,600.

By the numbers

People: 13,218
Rank: 2,665th
How common: 1 in 22,600
Per 100,000: 4.4

Where the name comes from

From Spanish Alba, ultimately from the same origin as Etymology 1 and 2.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Alba described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 80.7%
White, not Hispanic 12.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Alba

Jessica Alba (born 1981)American actress
Jordi Alba (born 1989)Spanish association football player
Maria Alba (1910–1999)Spanish film actress
Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz (1951–2026)Mexican Roman Catholic bishop

People named Alba with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Alba

Also a first name

Alba has been given to 7,579 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.