Alina
Alina was given to 2,204 girls in 2025, #130 among girls’ names; 45,387 Americans have been recorded with it since 1892 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 44,700 Americans named Alina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alina is “a female given name from the Germanic languages.”
Borrowed from Italian Alina, or a Latinate form of French Aline, ultimately from diminutives of the same Germanic name Adela, Adele.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alina?
#130 among girls’ names, 2025
Alina rose from #173 in 2015 to #130 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 1.0 to 1.4 per 1,000.
2,204 babies in 2025, the peak
Alina peaked in 2025, when 2,204 girls were given it, #130 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 2,182 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,204 | #130 | 1.4 |
| 2024 | 2,182 | #136 | 1.3 |
| 2023 | 1,902 | #150 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 2,122 | #133 | 1.3 |
| 2021 | 2,027 | #135 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 1,701 | #170 | 1.1 |
| 2019 | 1,833 | #156 | 1.1 |
| 2018 | 1,799 | #157 | 1.1 |
| 2017 | 1,659 | #187 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 1,824 | #178 | 1.0 |
Every recorded year (92)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,857 | #173 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 1,714 | #193 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 1,263 | #252 | 0.72 |
| 2012 | 1,201 | #271 | 0.68 |
| 2011 | 1,210 | #267 | 0.69 |
| 2010 | 1,239 | #265 | 0.70 |
| 2009 | 1,321 | #249 | 0.72 |
| 2008 | 1,407 | #247 | 0.74 |
| 2007 | 1,737 | #194 | 0.90 |
| 2006 | 934 | #354 | 0.49 |
| 2005 | 809 | #389 | 0.44 |
| 2004 | 789 | #394 | 0.43 |
| 2003 | 768 | #397 | 0.42 |
| 2002 | 670 | #433 | 0.37 |
| 2001 | 574 | #485 | 0.32 |
| 2000 | 595 | #466 | 0.33 |
| 1999 | 534 | #485 | 0.30 |
| 1998 | 512 | #495 | 0.29 |
| 1997 | 528 | #477 | 0.30 |
| 1996 | 417 | #560 | 0.24 |
| 1995 | 488 | #503 | 0.28 |
| 1994 | 420 | #561 | 0.24 |
| 1993 | 361 | #626 | 0.20 |
| 1992 | 353 | #638 | 0.19 |
| 1991 | 363 | #622 | 0.19 |
| 1990 | 326 | #663 | 0.17 |
| 1989 | 281 | #702 | 0.15 |
| 1988 | 245 | #762 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 204 | #846 | 0.12 |
| 1986 | 190 | #873 | 0.11 |
| 1985 | 185 | #863 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 134 | #1,051 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 149 | #981 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 164 | #919 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 147 | #991 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 152 | #977 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 162 | #912 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 135 | #1,006 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 140 | #979 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 107 | #1,117 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 126 | #978 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 108 | #1,082 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 100 | #1,120 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 89 | #1,205 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 119 | #1,034 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 99 | #1,168 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 80 | #1,250 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 65 | #1,388 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 69 | #1,316 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 54 | #1,515 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 53 | #1,528 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 53 | #1,560 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,894 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,264 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 31 | #2,116 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,732 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,256 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,750 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,311 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,531 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,972 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,720 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,230 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,720 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,618 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,889 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,765 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,997 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,677 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,962 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,459 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,064 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,572 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,985 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,032 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,406 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,876 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,924 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,632 | 0.01 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,704 | 0.02 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,431 | 0.03 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,457 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 92 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alina, and how old are they?
44,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 45,387 Americans ever recorded as Alina. The median Alina alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 41,648 people named Alina (41,602 women and girls, 46 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 33,214 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 246 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,550 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,320 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 14,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 23,900 |
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 Alina born?
The states with the most babies named Alina are California, Texas and New York, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 542 | #42 | 2.0× |
| Texas | 301 | #91 | 1.1× |
| New York | 149 | #94 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 142 | #128 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 82 | #110 | 1.1× |
| Washington | 68 | #86 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 67 | #111 | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 61 | #99 | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 55 | #137 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 53 | #198 | 0.5× |
Where Alina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alina is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 2.0 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 Alina 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, Alina is the third most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,204 of their 9,972 babies (22%), the 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 Alina
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 Alina and names like it
- Compare Alina and AlanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAlina peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alina since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Alina: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Alina.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Alina alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.