Alby

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Alby: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Alby: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #334 in 2020, and it stood at #535 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#334highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2020
1997	#1454
1998	#1110
1999	#2097
2000	#3036
2001	#1949
2002	#2254
2003	#1629
2004	#1878
2005	#1299
2006	#1347
2007	#1125
2008	#1403
2009	#1099
2010	#1109
2011	#1045
2012	#852
2013	#684
2014	#659
2015	#518
2016	#387
2017	#469
2018	#427
2019	#501
2020	#587
2021	#539
2022	#439
2023	#508
2024	#702

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #535 among boys in Scotland, #655 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #702 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2020 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2019–2023
Highest recorded position: #334 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2020 (recorded 2019–2023).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #702 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Alby appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,143 births with the name.

Alby across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Alby's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#387 (2016)	#702 (2024)	29 of 29	1,143 (1996–2024)	117 (2016)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#713 (2016)	#496 (2020)	#655 (2024)	9 of 9	35 (2016–2024)	6 (2020)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#418 (2019)	#334 (2020)	#395 (2023)	4 of 5	14 (2019–2023)	4 (2020)

Alby by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Alby in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	30	4 of 10	8
2000s	121	10 of 10	12
2010s	639	10 of 10	64
2020sbusiest	353	5 of 10	71

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 71 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2015 and 2016, when recorded births rose by 42, from 75 to 117.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Alby appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #334 in Northern Ireland in 2020.

Alby's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#702	51	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#508	77	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#439	92	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#539	72	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#587	61	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#501	78	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#427	98	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#469	87	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#387	117	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#518	75	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#659	51	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#684	48	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#852	36	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1045	25	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1109	24	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1099	23	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1403	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1125	21	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1347	15	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1299	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1878	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1629	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1110	12	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1454	8	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#395	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#374	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#334	4	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#418	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#655	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#657	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#552	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#496	6	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#646	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#749	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#710	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#535	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #334, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 117 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2016, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Albin · #596, 17y
Albion · #1462, 28y
Alden · #1143, 23y
Aldo · #304, 26y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Zayne · #334, 26y
Hania · #333, 30y
Ziggy · #333, 29y
Alaina · #336, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Briony · #334, 29y
Rion · #334, 26y
Tariq · #334, 29y
Thom · #334, 24y

Alby was ranked #334 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2020. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Alby and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Alby without appearing here.

Alby moved ahead of

Kim Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1878 and #1596 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1299 and #2754.
Geoffrey Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1347 and #1224 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1125 and #2435.
Anders Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2254 and #1519 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1629 and #2857.
Tayla Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2254 and #1799 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1629 and #2857.

Moved ahead of Alby

Arlo Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2097 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #3036 and #2142.
Hudson Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1110 and #2419 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #2097 and #1850.
Hunter Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1347 and #1643 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1125 and #926.
Kasper Compare
In 2023 they stood at #508 and #561 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #702 and #529.

Moved the opposite way to Alby

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Alby went from #2020 to #702 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Alby went from #2020 to #702 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Alby went from #2020 to #702 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Alby went from #2020 to #702 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Alby

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Alby went from #2020 to #702 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Alby went from #2020 to #702 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Alby went from #2020 to #702 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Alby went from #2020 to #702 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #334 in Northern Ireland in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Alby

Alby at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Alby across 3 official records

Alby by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Alby across 3 official records

Alby by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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