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Albi

Gender
Boy
Say it
AL-bee
Origin
Germanic
UK rank, 2025
#589 for boys
US rank, 2025
#6,799 for boys

Albi is a boys' name of Germanic origin, meaning “noble and bright”. In 2025 it ranked 589th for boys in the UK (72 babies) and 6,799th for boys in the US (12 babies).

What does Albi mean?

Germanic: pet form of Albert

“noble and bright”

A pet form of Albert, given as a name in its own right.

Is Albi a girl's or a boy's name?

Albi is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls and 72 boys in the UK and 12 boys in the US.

How popular is Albi in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#589among boys
Babies in 2025
72about 1 in 4,200 boys
Five-year trend
Steadydown 4% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 72 boys in the UK were named Albi, making it the 589th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 509th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 98 boys. 4 girls were also named Albi in 2025 (4,935th for girls).

Half of all the boys named Albi in the UK since 1996 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,987 boys in the UK were given Albi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #23, up from #589 for this spelling alone.

Among boys in 2025, it was 602nd in England and Wales and 400th in Scotland.

1997Busiest: 98 in 20172025
Albi in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
202572#589
202471#597
202375#574
202288#501
202159#681
202084#509
201960#656
201883#523
201798#469
201635#956
201530#1,046
201421#1,308
201319#1,398
201222#1,278
201115#1,619
201011#2,013
200914#1,674
20089#2,212
200714#1,605
20065#3,013
20058#2,090
20048#1,983
20035#2,574
20027#1,900
200111#1,369
20000–
19990–
19985#2,170
19973#2,979

How popular is Albi in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,799among boys
Babies in 2025
12about 1 in 140,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 12 boys in the US were named Albi, making it the 6,799th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 14 boys. It first appears in the records in 2000.

Half of all the boys named Albi in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 49 boys in the US were given Albi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,241, up from #6,799 for this spelling alone.

2000Busiest: 14 in 20222025
Albi in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202512#6,799
202410#7,760
202312#6,892
202214#6,141
202110#7,582
20208#8,734
20199#8,209
20185#12,150
20170–
20160–
20157#9,562
20140–
20135#12,129
20126#10,763
20115#12,280
201010#7,585
200911#7,231
20085#12,546
200712#6,618
20065#12,048
20058#8,292
20046#9,941
20035#10,886
20020–
20015#10,548
20008#7,409

Names like Albi

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Albi

More Germanic names

Every Germanic name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Albi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/albi, updated 20 October 2026.