Meaning not yet researched.
Alaina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,366 in 2025. Its best rank was #156 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #156 in 2011; #224 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alaina in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#224 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #156.
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Alaina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,366 girls in 2025. Peak: #156 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 1,999 (2011).
In 2025, 1,366 US girls were named Alaina, making it the 224th most common girls’ name of the year, down 12 places from #212 in 2024. That is 82 fewer than the 1,448 girls named Alaina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #156, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,999. For comparison, it was #176 in 2015 and #5,304 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alaina in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 6 babies. In all, 50,584 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 17,297 babies named Alaina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 15,137 US girls were named Alaina; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,770. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,177 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alaina ranked highest in Delaware in 2025, at #117 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alana (68,295 babies since 1880), Alina (45,387 babies since 1880), Alayna (35,594 babies since 1880) and Alanna (27,019 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Alainnah, Aleinah and Allinah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Alainnah (26), Aleinah (13), Allinah (5), Alliona (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Alaina in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 9 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 7 | #117 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 77 | #136 | #113 |
| Mississippi | 17 | #143 | #152 |
| Michigan | 57 | #145 | #98 |
| Ohio | 73 | #148 | #138 |
| West Virginia | 10 | #154 | #65 |
| Maine | 7 | #155 | #123 |
| South Dakota | 7 | #161 | #131 |
| Illinois | 61 | #162 | #164 |
| Kansas | 20 | #163 | #147 |
| Missouri | 36 | #171 | #109 |
| Iowa | 18 | #174 | #140 |
| Oklahoma | 22 | #175 | #145 |
| Indiana | 39 | #176 | #122 |
| North Carolina | 58 | #181 | #152 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #182 | #160 |
| Nebraska | 12 | #182 | #168 |
| Kentucky | 25 | #185 | #95 |
| Arkansas | 16 | #188 | #139 |
| North Dakota | 5 | #196 | #131 |
| Minnesota | 27 | #202 | #158 |
| Montana | 5 | #209 | #178 |
| Wisconsin | 26 | #213 | #126 |
| Texas | 156 | #221 | #204 |
| New Jersey | 37 | #221 | #192 |
| Virginia | 35 | #230 | #156 |
| Florida | 77 | #248 | #195 |
| Tennessee | 29 | #262 | #177 |
| New York | 64 | #263 | #258 |
| South Carolina | 19 | #265 | #173 |
| Alabama | 18 | #266 | #110 |
| Maryland | 19 | #269 | #238 |
| Washington | 25 | #288 | #337 |
| Georgia | 35 | #290 | #190 |
| Utah | 14 | #310 | #425 |
| California | 101 | #322 | #376 |
| Louisiana | 14 | #322 | #150 |
| Massachusetts | 17 | #334 | #222 |
| Oregon | 10 | #353 | #199 |
| Arizona | 19 | #357 | #196 |
| Colorado | 16 | #370 | #242 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #396 | #447 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,366 | #224 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,448 | #212 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,364 | #219 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,432 | #202 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,500 | #201 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,488 | #197 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,578 | #186 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,522 | #202 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,669 | #182 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,770 | #184 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,820 | #176 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,748 | #189 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,758 | #182 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,933 | #163 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,999 | #156 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,500 | #206 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,318 | #250 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,504 | #224 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,538 | #228 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,361 | #250 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,282 | #253 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,209 | #269 | — | — |
| 2003 | 1,126 | #277 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,002 | #309 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,006 | #314 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,004 | #316 | — | — |
| 1999 | 877 | #341 | — | — |
| 1998 | 689 | #398 | — | — |
| 1997 | 640 | #409 | — | — |
| 1996 | 692 | #384 | — | — |
| 1995 | 665 | #395 | — | — |
| 1994 | 662 | #382 | — | — |
| 1993 | 607 | #411 | — | — |
| 1992 | 575 | #436 | — | — |
| 1991 | 523 | #470 | — | — |
| 1990 | 567 | #441 | — | — |
| 1989 | 533 | #456 | 6 | #6,961 |
| 1988 | 480 | #472 | — | — |
| 1987 | 442 | #489 | — | — |
| 1986 | 451 | #475 | — | — |
| 1985 | 406 | #499 | — | — |
| 1984 | 359 | #535 | — | — |
| 1983 | 403 | #488 | — | — |
| 1982 | 458 | #461 | — | — |
| 1981 | 465 | #462 | — | — |
| 1980 | 407 | #501 | — | — |
| 1979 | 195 | #808 | — | — |
| 1978 | 146 | #954 | — | — |
| 1977 | 93 | #1,275 | — | — |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 1975 | 82 | #1,326 | — | — |
| 1974 | 93 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 1973 | 49 | #1,773 | — | — |
| 1972 | 55 | #1,627 | — | — |
| 1971 | 62 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 1970 | 74 | #1,407 | — | — |
| 1969 | 57 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1968 | 65 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 1967 | 62 | #1,399 | — | — |
| 1966 | 39 | #1,827 | — | — |
| 1965 | 48 | #1,622 | — | — |
| 1964 | 49 | #1,635 | — | — |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,544 | — | — |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,889 | — | — |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,513 | — | — |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,518 | — | — |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,085 | — | — |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,699 | — | — |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,166 | — | — |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,574 | — | — |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,280 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,596 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,418 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,304 | — | — |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,240 | — | — |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,243 | — | — |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,422 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).