Alayne
Alayne was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 1,091 Americans have been recorded with it between 1929 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alayne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alayne?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,215, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
41 babies in 1965, the peak
Alayne peaked in 1965, when 41 girls were given it, #1,768 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,215 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,223 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,268 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,137 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,513 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,900 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,656 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,247 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,286 | 5.1 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,668 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 6 | #15,210 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,061 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,805 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,297 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,562 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,902 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,368 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,605 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,046 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,065 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,051 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,102 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,063 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,069 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | #7,992 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,258 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,536 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,599 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,361 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,164 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 9 | #6,963 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,905 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,031 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,918 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,345 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,746 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,702 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,463 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,659 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,908 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 6 | #7,993 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,778 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,086 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,296 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,311 | 7.8 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,706 | 14.9 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,422 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,223 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,871 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,268 | 8.9 |
| 1965 | 41 | #1,768 | 23.2 |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,246 | 15.3 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,622 | 11.4 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,921 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 18 | #2,956 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,903 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,033 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,861 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,651 | 9.3 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,621 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,839 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,697 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,595 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,580 | 9.2 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,578 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,651 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,851 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,829 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,199 | 11.3 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,881 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,133 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,058 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,250 | 11.5 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,045 | 13.3 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,954 | 14.9 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,202 | 12.2 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,432 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,732 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,785 | 17.9 |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,549 | 22.1 |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,006 | 15.3 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,926 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,223 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,417 | 4.7 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,973 | 8.5 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,662 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,740 | 9.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alayne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alayne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 87 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alayne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alayne, and how old are they?
An estimated 861 Americans named Alayne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 34 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 936 people named Alayne (929 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 898 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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 224,933 babies since 1880, Alayne is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 7,377 babies recorded by SSA was a Alayne (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Alayne
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 Alayne and names like it
- Compare Alayne and AlanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sAlayne peaked in 1965.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alayne since 1910.
- The top names of 1965The year the most babies were named Alayne.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Alayne alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.