Girls' name · since 2015
Alhena
Since 2015, U.S. Social Security records show 28 babies named Alhena, peaking in 2015. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #41,598 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,492 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 28
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
28 babies have been named Alhena since 2015, making it today's #14492 girls' name.
Alhena has 28 recorded births among girls since 2015, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #14492 as of the latest data, more common than 16% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2015 to 2025.
- #41,598 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,492 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 28 born since 2015
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Alhena ranks #41,598 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,492 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 28 born since 2015, peaking in the 2020s.
- #41,598 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,492 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 28
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Alhena's 28 recorded births place it above 41.88% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Alhena compares
28 10th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Alhena's all-time total is 93% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Alhena | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 28 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 6 | 21 | 19,840 |
Alhena's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Alhena's SSA record in two at 2022 and the more recent half accounts for 57% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 43%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2022, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2015 peak of 6, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Alhena popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–2025
- Peak year (2015)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
Alhena by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (16 births, 57% of the file).
2020s was Alhena's strongest decade.
16 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 57% of all-time use.
Alhena births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
12 births
- 2020s
2020s
16 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 16 births (57% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Alhena: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2015–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Alhena draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.