Albin is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Albin in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Albin in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Albin by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Albin ranks at #5,972. That means there are 5,971 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Albin.
Albin is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2021, where the name Albin was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Albin and were born in the USA in 2021, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Albin even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular boys' names: In 1891, it ranked on position 343 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Albin was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Albin has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 9 times and thus landed on position 7,071 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular male first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 9 boys with the name Albin, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
The odds of having a man or boy named Albin in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Albin is registered in 17 states, among which are California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana or Iowa. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Albin live in Minnesota, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 15,249 men and boys in Minnesota for their name before you meet one who answers with Albin.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With five letters, the name Albin is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Albin and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Albin, you can simply say:
Apple
Lion
Butterfly
Igloo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Albin
Albin
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
L
B
I
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
L
B
I
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Albin sounds like this:
