Fun Facts About the Name Albi
- 178 babies named Albi: U.S. records list 178 babies given the name Albi from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Albi Mean?
Albi is most commonly a short form of Albin, a name built on the Latin cognomen Albinus, from albus, meaning "white" or "fair." The same Latin adjective survives in Catalan and Occitan as albi, "white." A competing explanation links Albi to Albert, a Germanic name from adal "noble" and beraht "bright"; understood this way, the meaning would be "noble and bright" rather than "white." Because Albi works as an informal shortening, its precise source in a given family is not always certain.
Albi Name History & Origins
The name behind Albi is the Latin Albinus, a Roman family name (cognomen) meaning "white" or "fair-haired." It was borne by early Christian saints, among them Saint Albinus of Angers, a sixth-century bishop in Gaul also known as Aubin. Through that association the name spread in France as Aubin and in English-speaking countries as Albin. Shorter, familiar forms such as Albi developed from these longer names. Albi is also the name of a town in southern France, whose Latin name was Albiga; this place name is usually treated as separate from the personal name.
How Popular is the Name Albi?
Albi has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2022. Its best rank was #6,159 in 2022.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #6,823 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2024 | #7,751 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2023 | #6,898 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2022 | #6,159 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2021 | #7,609 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2020 | #8,767 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2019 | #8,235 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2018 | #12,229 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2015 | #9,610 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2013 | #12,204 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2012 | #10,832 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2011 | #12,354 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2010 | #7,610 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2009 | #7,243 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2008 | #12,615 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 2007 | #6,633 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2006 | #12,113 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 2005 | #8,321 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2004 | #9,988 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2003 | #10,947 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2001 | #10,611 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2000 | #7,442 | 8 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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