Albany

loc · Latin script

Meaning: servant or retainer of the dukes of Albany; from a Gaelic name for Scotland

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Albany is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Mexico.

rarermore common
  • PAPanama
  • COColombia
  • MXMexico

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
89 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

servant or retainer of the dukes of Albany; from a Gaelic name for Scotland

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Albany counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Albany is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico——Albany31
CO Colombia——Albany32
PA Panama——Albany5
RU Russia——Albany1
VE Venezuela—1.4K—33
US United States—748—89
BR Brazil—371——
CR Costa Rica—27—7

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Albany is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Australia, United States, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Ãlbãny

  • Arabic name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Algeria

    Also written Ãlbänÿ

  • Lao given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written อัลบาน, อัลบานี่, อัลบานี

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Albany is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Irish, Anglicised from Irish Fionn, from find ‘white, fair’.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • The Irish name Fionn (English Finn) came from find, ‘white’ or ‘fair’. This was anglicised as Albany, from Latin a/bus, ‘white’.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • In English, Scotland north of the River Forth.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, city, county, NY; river, Canada

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, city, Australia

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

175018001850190019502000Albany Fonblanque, b. 1794Albany Hancock, b. 1806Albany James Christie, b. 1817Albany Hawkes Charlesworth, b. 1854Albany E. Howarth, b. 1872Fernande Albany, b. 1889Albany Robichaud, b. 1903Jean Albany, b. 1917Joe Albany, b. 1924Jade Albany Pietrantonio, b. 1990

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Albany
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020602#39,424
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010579#38,265
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000546#38,141
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—36#131,575
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Albany mean, and where does it come from?
servant or retainer of the dukes of Albany; from a Gaelic name for Scotland Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
In which country does Albany have the most bearers?
Albany is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled albany.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Albany”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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