In 2025, 5 US girls were named Alene, making it the 15,041st most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,484 places from #13,557 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 6 girls named Alene in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #409, reached in 1920. That year also had the most girls given the name: 264. For comparison, it was #9,513 in 2015 and #927 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alene in 139 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 5 babies. In all, 8,753 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,356 babies named Alene.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 89 US girls were named Alene; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 13. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Alina (45,387 babies since 1880), Alena (16,014 babies since 1880), Aline (14,673 babies since 1880) and Allene (8,767 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and Walloon. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.