Aleyna
Aleyna was given to 197 girls in 2025, #1,173 among girls’ names; 2,938 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,920 Americans named Aleyna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aleyna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aleyna mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Aleyna is “a female given name from Ancient Greek”
Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aleyna?
#1,173 among girls’ names, 2025
Aleyna rose from #1,840 in 2015 to #1,173 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.06 to 0.12 per 1,000.
268 babies in 2023, the peak
Aleyna peaked in 2023, when 268 girls were given it, #964 among girls’ names. The 197 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 197 | #1,173 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 191 | #1,231 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 268 | #964 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 196 | #1,228 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 142 | #1,492 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 120 | #1,698 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 150 | #1,465 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 129 | #1,640 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 127 | #1,688 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 114 | #1,815 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 112 | #1,840 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 91 | #2,114 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 115 | #1,777 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 96 | #2,016 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 95 | #2,043 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 77 | #2,430 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,287 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,888 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,824 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 70 | #2,580 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,864 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,806 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,953 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,239 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,862 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,165 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,202 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,022 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,850 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,069 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,220 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,109 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,039 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,358 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,438 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,401 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,331 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aleyna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aleyna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aleyna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aleyna, and how old are they?
2,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,938 Americans ever recorded as Aleyna. The median Aleyna alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,558 people named Aleyna (1,555 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,841 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 84 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 891 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,940 |
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 Aleyna born?
The states with the most babies named Aleyna are Texas, California and Florida, with 60% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 38 | #780 | 1.9× |
| California | 29 | #950 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 17 | #916 | 0.8× |
| New York | 14 | #1,031 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #778 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,248 | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 6 | #914 | 0.7× |
| Washington | 6 | #921 | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 6 | #794 | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,185 | 0.4× |
Where Aleyna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aleyna is most over-represented in Texas: since 1985 it was given 1.9 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 Aleyna 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 258,366 babies since 1880, Aleyna is the eighth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 197 of their 8,712 babies (2.3%), 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 Aleyna
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 Aleyna and names like it
- Compare Aleyna and AlanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAleyna peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aleyna since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Aleyna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Aleyna.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aleyna alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.