Alby
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Name of an Irish saint; sometimes anglicised as Albert
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/alβi/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Alby is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 73Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 99Kfew records
- ECEcuador≈1 in 180K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 174 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 73K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Name of an Irish saint; sometimes anglicised as Albert.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Irish first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Alby, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Alby counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 736K | 74 | Alby | 40 |
| IT Italy | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Alby | 19 |
| US United States | 313 | 1 in 1.1M | 231 | Alby | 174 |
| AU Australia | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 99K | 18 | Alby | 82 |
| PH Philippines | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 746K | — | Alby | 22 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 345K | — | Alby | 12 |
| EC Ecuador | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 179K | 1 | — | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 214K | 10 | Alby | 25 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Alby is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A habitational surname from Old English.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, instrumental plural of album
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Irish: Anglicized form of AILBHE .
as a word
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)- Ernest Albyb. 1809FRauthor of historical novels (1809-1868)
- Henry Albyb. 1858FRformer Chief of the Army Staff, France (1858–1935)
- Amédée Albyb. 1862FRFrench engineer (1862–1942)
- Pierre Albyb. 1921FRFrench engineer
- Barbara Albyb. 1946USAmerican politician from California
- Francesca Albyb. 1971ITItalian psychologist
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 231 | #77,222 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 224 | #88,925 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 189 | #96,368 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 106 | #2,808 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 74 | #34,684 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Alby mean, and where does it come from?
- Name of an Irish saint; sometimes anglicised as Albert. Recorded by Irish first names.
- Is Alby a male or female name?
- Alby is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- What are other forms of the name Alby?
- In the etymology graph, Elva is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Alby?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /alβi/; in Indonesian /albj/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Alby have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Alby in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alby.
- How common is the name Alby?
- In the United States, the national register counted 313 people named Alby in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Alby?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/albyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Alby”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.