Alaine
Alaine was given to 11 girls in 2025, #8,881 among girls’ names; 1,454 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,230 Americans named Alaine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 24 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alaine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alaine?
#8,881 among girls’ names, 2025
Alaine fell from #6,464 in 2015 to #8,881 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 6.8 per million.
33 babies in 1967, the peak
Alaine peaked in 1967, when 33 girls were given it, #2,039 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,881 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,958 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,007 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,716 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,696 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,855 | 12.4 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,613 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,835 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,361 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 21 | #5,993 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,464 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,160 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,382 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,349 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,172 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,284 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,487 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,631 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,562 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,634 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,056 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,909 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,526 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,294 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,735 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,037 | 6.6 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,075 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,875 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,398 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 15 | #5,959 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,605 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,670 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,483 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,493 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,117 | 12.6 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,667 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,896 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,855 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,358 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,126 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,528 | 13.7 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,808 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,716 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,007 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,507 | 13.9 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,233 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,935 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,894 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,616 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,164 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,777 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,786 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,301 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,802 | 15.0 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,493 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,254 | 19.0 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,315 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 33 | #2,039 | 20.0 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,452 | 14.2 |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,538 | 13.0 |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,150 | 16.4 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,305 | 14.0 |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,604 | 11.2 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,753 | 9.9 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,431 | 11.9 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,458 | 10.9 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,663 | 9.4 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,925 | 7.8 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,697 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,838 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,449 | 10.3 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,516 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,808 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,105 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,435 | 9.9 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,850 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,828 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,242 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,597 | 8.9 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,742 | 8.4 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,250 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,538 | 9.6 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,271 | 11.6 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,355 | 4.4 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,348 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,802 | 5.6 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,433 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,805 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,406 | 6.9 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,852 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,661 | 6.2 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,163 | 7.8 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,295 | 5.0 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,010 | 5.6 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,974 | 5.8 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,978 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,825 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,513 | 6.9 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,426 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alaine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alaine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 99 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alaine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alaine, and how old are they?
1,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 1,454 Americans ever recorded as Alaine. The median Alaine alive today is 43 years old; half are between 24 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 1,349 people named Alaine (1,312 women and girls, 37 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,204 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 35 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 270 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 268 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 292 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 185 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 185 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 261,916 babies since 1880, Alaine is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 9,585 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Alaine
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 Alaine and names like it
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