Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Albena isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1889. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Albena through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 397
- 0 boys · 397 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 29 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1932. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 29 in 1917. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 280 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Albena’s family of names
In Bulgarian usage, Albena is a transliteration of Албена.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Albena
- Albena BakratchevaBulgarian Americanistborn 1961
- Albena BranzovaBulgarian basketball player (born 1971)
- Albena Petrovic-VratchanskaLuxembourgian composer and pianistborn 1965
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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If you love Albena, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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“to be elevated”
>99% girls
Adelene
Adelene is a feminine given name.
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