Alban
Fewer than fifty men in Poland carry Alban, so meeting one stays with you. The name comes from Latin, tied to alba and the sense of "white".
Alban Pronunciation
Alban is pronounced AHL-bahn (/ˈalban/).
What Alban means
Where Alban comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Alban begins in Latin, in the word albus and its feminine alba, meaning white. The color gave the name its sense. In Polish that comes out as biały, pochodzący z alby.
France is where the name settled. Saint Alban, an early martyr, left his name on French villages and parishes called Saint-Alban, and the calendar of saints kept it in circulation. The French line of the name has no diminutives to soften it. It stands as Alban, four letters and two syllables, close to the Latin it came from.
On a Polish class register today, Alban is a rare entry. His imieniny fall on 21 June, with 22 June as a second date, so the name gets marked twice in early summer. The meaning stays where it started, in alba, the white one.
When Alban celebrates name day
Alban appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 21 June.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Alban
1 in 444712 men in Poland is named Alban. 48 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5454 among male names.
Alban as a middle name
Alban is a first name for 48 men in Poland and a middle name for another 15, a 76/24 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2373rd, between Akash (15) and Amjad (15).
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#2371 Ajit15
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#2372 Akash15
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#2373 Alban15
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#2374 Amjad15
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#2375 Amr15