Alaina — #212 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Alaina

The Social Security Administration has registered 49,201 babies named Alaina between 1946 and 2024, spanning 79 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Alaina currently holds the #212 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 1,998 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alaina performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 17,295 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Alaina shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 3,649 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Alaina in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alaina in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 49,201 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.