Allena
Allena was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,485 among girls’ names; 2,101 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,700 Americans named Allena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 16 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Allena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Allena?
#9,485 among girls’ names, 2025
Allena fell from #5,132 in 2015 to #9,485 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.6 to 6.2 per million.
57 babies in 2007, the peak
Allena peaked in 2007, when 57 girls were given it, #3,050 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,485 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,671 | 17.9 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,759 | 13.1 |
| 2022 | 20 | #5,994 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,045 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,455 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,168 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,148 | 20.0 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,391 | 18.5 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,781 | 22.6 |
Every recorded year (121)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,132 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,850 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,785 | 22.8 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,493 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,215 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,312 | 27.6 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,018 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,184 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,050 | 29.6 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,618 | 22.6 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,260 | 25.4 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,824 | 20.1 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,229 | 24.6 |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,240 | 23.9 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,484 | 21.1 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,851 | 27.5 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,507 | 19.7 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,024 | 15.8 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,715 | 17.2 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,357 | 19.4 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,491 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,534 | 17.4 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,288 | 18.8 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,685 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,497 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,521 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,672 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,842 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,861 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,726 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,329 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,728 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,467 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,028 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,347 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,804 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,904 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,464 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,612 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,542 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,777 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,464 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,364 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,486 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,534 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,042 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,425 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,612 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 8 | #4,989 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,818 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,294 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,379 | 7.9 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,023 | 5.7 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,792 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,692 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,574 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,547 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,208 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,171 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,841 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,160 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 9 | #3,960 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,921 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,722 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,308 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,177 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,208 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,061 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,220 | 6.4 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,388 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,205 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,194 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,568 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,299 | 11.4 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,186 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,738 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,382 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,221 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,093 | 14.4 |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,054 | 14.9 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,428 | 4.7 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,231 | 7.5 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,351 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,066 | 5.4 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,205 | 5.2 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,702 | 10.1 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,574 | 6.7 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,619 | 10.7 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,980 | 5.8 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,385 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,765 | 9.7 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,592 | 10.8 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,642 | 10.6 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,247 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,352 | 7.4 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,662 | 10.5 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,693 | 10.2 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,271 | 13.1 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,889 | 17.6 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,941 | 17.7 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,291 | 31.7 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,549 | 23.9 |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,293 | 31.4 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,959 | 16.9 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,891 | 18.2 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,726 | 20.0 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,559 | 21.3 |
| 1893 | 10 | #956 | 47.0 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,339 | 27.0 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,100 | 36.8 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,039 | 39.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Allena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Allena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 121 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Allena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Allena, and how old are they?
1,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 81% of the 2,101 Americans ever recorded as Allena. The median Allena alive today is 26 years old; half are between 16 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 1,508 people named Allena (1,504 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,637 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 38 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 137 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 192 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 348 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 628 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 357 |
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).
How common is the spelling Allena?
Allena is a less common spelling of Alena: SSA has recorded 2,101 Allena and 16,014 Alena since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 257,529 babies since 1880, Allena is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 8,525 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 Allena
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 Allena and names like it
- Compare Allena and AlenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAllena peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Allena since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Allena.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Allena alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.