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The ALBA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,872 3324 0.004 37
United States (1880 census) 76 37620 0 2
Change since 1880 +9796 +34296 +N/A +35
Other Countries
Australia 57 22765 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for ALBA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,669 1546 0.008 79
Texas 1,694 1793 0.008 81
Florida 814 3169 0.005 51
New York 779 3103 0.004 41
Illinois 556 2916 0.004 45
Top States for ALBA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 107 1885 0.010 102
Texas 1,694 1793 0.008 81
California 2,669 1546 0.008 79
New Mexico 139 1541 0.008 76
Nevada 152 1936 0.008 76

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ALBA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ALBA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ALBA in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ALBA by picking someone at random in Rhode Island than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ALBA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ALBA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the ALBA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ALBA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 528 5.35
Mixed Race 84 0.85
Black/African American 44 0.45
Native American/Alaskan 18 0.18
White (Hispanic) 7,536 76.34
White (Caucasian) 1,662 16.84

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ALBA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of ALBA in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of ALBA.

Similar names to ALBA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ALBA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ALBA

The following words are slight variants of ALBA that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.