Alaina
Alaina was given to 1,366 girls in 2025, #224 among girls’ names; 50,584 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 49,900 Americans named Alaina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alaina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alaina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alaina is “a female given name from the Celtic languages.”
A variant of Alana coined in the 20th century from Alain, the French equivalent of Alan.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alaina?
#224 among girls’ names, 2025
Alaina fell from #176 in 2015 to #224 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 1.0 to 0.85 per 1,000.
1,999 babies in 2011, the peak
Alaina peaked in 2011, when 1,999 girls were given it, #156 among girls’ names. The 1,366 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,366 | #224 | 0.85 |
| 2024 | 1,448 | #212 | 0.89 |
| 2023 | 1,364 | #219 | 0.85 |
| 2022 | 1,432 | #202 | 0.87 |
| 2021 | 1,500 | #201 | 0.91 |
| 2020 | 1,488 | #197 | 0.92 |
| 2019 | 1,578 | #186 | 0.94 |
| 2018 | 1,522 | #202 | 0.89 |
| 2017 | 1,669 | #182 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 1,770 | #184 | 1.0 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,820 | #176 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 1,748 | #189 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 1,758 | #182 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 1,933 | #163 | 1.1 |
| 2011 | 1,999 | #156 | 1.1 |
| 2010 | 1,500 | #206 | 0.84 |
| 2009 | 1,318 | #250 | 0.72 |
| 2008 | 1,504 | #224 | 0.80 |
| 2007 | 1,538 | #228 | 0.80 |
| 2006 | 1,361 | #250 | 0.72 |
| 2005 | 1,282 | #253 | 0.69 |
| 2004 | 1,209 | #269 | 0.66 |
| 2003 | 1,126 | #277 | 0.62 |
| 2002 | 1,002 | #309 | 0.56 |
| 2001 | 1,006 | #314 | 0.56 |
| 2000 | 1,004 | #316 | 0.55 |
| 1999 | 877 | #341 | 0.49 |
| 1998 | 689 | #398 | 0.39 |
| 1997 | 640 | #409 | 0.37 |
| 1996 | 692 | #384 | 0.39 |
| 1995 | 665 | #395 | 0.38 |
| 1994 | 662 | #382 | 0.37 |
| 1993 | 607 | #411 | 0.34 |
| 1992 | 575 | #436 | 0.31 |
| 1991 | 523 | #470 | 0.28 |
| 1990 | 567 | #440 | 0.30 |
| 1989 | 533 | #456 | 0.29 |
| 1988 | 480 | #472 | 0.27 |
| 1987 | 442 | #489 | 0.25 |
| 1986 | 451 | #475 | 0.26 |
| 1985 | 406 | #499 | 0.24 |
| 1984 | 359 | #535 | 0.21 |
| 1983 | 403 | #488 | 0.24 |
| 1982 | 458 | #461 | 0.27 |
| 1981 | 465 | #462 | 0.28 |
| 1980 | 407 | #501 | 0.25 |
| 1979 | 195 | #808 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 146 | #954 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 93 | #1,275 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,794 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 82 | #1,326 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 93 | #1,198 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 49 | #1,773 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 55 | #1,627 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 62 | #1,560 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 74 | #1,407 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 57 | #1,572 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 65 | #1,387 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 62 | #1,399 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 39 | #1,827 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 48 | #1,622 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 49 | #1,635 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,543 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,888 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,607 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,512 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,517 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,084 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,698 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,165 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,573 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,278 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,595 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,417 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,302 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,239 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,241 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,421 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alaina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alaina has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 78 years of records.
Girls and boys named Alaina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alaina, and how old are they?
49,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 50,584 Americans ever recorded as Alaina. The median Alaina alive today is 16 years old; half are between 9 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 38,346 people named Alaina (38,306 women and girls, 40 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 41,858 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 214 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,480 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,070 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 19,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 20,300 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Alaina born?
The states with the most babies named Alaina are Texas, California and Pennsylvania, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 156 | #221 | 0.8× |
| California | 101 | #322 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 77 | #136 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 77 | #248 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 73 | #148 | 1.6× |
| New York | 64 | #263 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 61 | #162 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 58 | #181 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 57 | #145 | 1.6× |
| Indiana | 39 | #176 | 1.4× |
Where Alaina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alaina is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1946 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alaina with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 276,476 babies since 1880, Alaina is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,366 of their 9,972 babies (14%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alaina
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alaina and names like it
- Compare Alaina and AlanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAlaina peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alaina since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Alaina.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Alaina alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.