Alaina
#224 for girls in 2025, 1,366 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #6,941
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 1,999 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 50,578since 1946
Alaina over time
Rank among girls' names. Alaina has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #224 | 1,366 | — | |
| 2024 | #212 | 1,448 | — | |
| 2023 | #219 | 1,364 | — | |
| 2022 | #202 | 1,432 | — | |
| 2021 | #201 | 1,500 | — | |
| 2020 | #197 | 1,488 | — | |
| 2019 | #186 | 1,578 | — | |
| 2018 | #202 | 1,522 | — | |
| 2017 | #182 | 1,669 | — | |
| 2016 | #184 | 1,770 | — | |
| 2015 | #176 | 1,820 | — | |
| 2014 | #189 | 1,748 | — | |
| 2013 | #182 | 1,758 | — | |
| 2012 | #163 | 1,933 | — | |
| 2011 | #156 | 1,999 | — | |
| 2010 | #206 | 1,500 | — | |
| 2009 | #250 | 1,318 | — | |
| 2008 | #224 | 1,504 | — | |
| 2007 | #228 | 1,538 | — | |
| 2006 | #250 | 1,361 | — | |
| 2005 | #253 | 1,282 | — | |
| 2004 | #269 | 1,209 | — | |
| 2003 | #277 | 1,126 | — | |
| 2002 | #309 | 1,002 | — | |
| 2001 | #314 | 1,006 | — | |
| 2000 | #316 | 1,004 | — | |
| 1999 | #341 | 877 | — | |
| 1998 | #398 | 689 | — | |
| 1997 | #408 | 640 | — | |
| 1996 | #384 | 692 | — | |
| 1995 | #395 | 665 | — | |
| 1994 | #382 | 662 | — | |
| 1993 | #411 | 607 | — | |
| 1992 | #436 | 575 | — | |
| 1991 | #469 | 523 | — | |
| 1990 | #441 | 567 | — | |
| 1989 | #456 | 533 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #472 | 480 | — | |
| 1987 | #489 | 442 | — | |
| 1986 | #475 | 451 | — | |
| 1985 | #499 | 406 | — | |
| 1984 | #535 | 359 | — | |
| 1983 | #488 | 403 | — | |
| 1982 | #461 | 458 | — | |
| 1981 | #462 | 465 | — | |
| 1980 | #501 | 407 | — | |
| 1979 | #808 | 195 | — | |
| 1978 | #954 | 146 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,275 | 93 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,794 | 52 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,326 | 82 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,198 | 93 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,773 | 49 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,627 | 55 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,560 | 62 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,407 | 74 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,572 | 57 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,387 | 65 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,399 | 62 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,827 | 39 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,622 | 48 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,635 | 49 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,543 | 23 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,889 | 37 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,608 | 22 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,512 | 13 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,517 | 21 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,085 | 15 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,696 | 11 | — | |
| 1956 | #4,161 | 9 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,571 | 11 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 | — | |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 | — | |
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| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 | — | |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | — | |
| 1949 | #4,235 | 7 | — | |
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| 1947 | #3,240 | 11 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alaina! It came in at #4,417, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1948, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Alaina
- 12 spots since 2024 (#212 → #224)
- 27 spots since 2020 (#197 → #224)
- 48 spots since 2015 (#176 → #224)
- Biggest jump: 321 spots in 1978 (#1,275 → #954)
- Biggest drop: 47 spots in 1984 (#488 → #535)
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 2011 at #156 (1,999 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 48 yrs · run 1978–2025
- Highest: 1 in 880 girls born in 2011 were named Alaina (0.11%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,177 girls born in 2025 (0.08%)
- 34.2% of all girls named Alaina (17,297) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 24 | #3,240 (1947) | #3,964 |
| 1950s | 92 | #2,517 (1959) | #4,069 |
| 1960s | 415 | #1,387 (1968) | #1,999 |
| 1970s | 901 | #808 (1979) | #1,372 |
| 1980s | 4,404 | #456 (1989) | #484 |
| 1990s | 6,497 | #341 (1999) | #407 |
| 2000s | 12,350 | #224 (2008) | #269 |
| 2010s | 17,297 | #156 (2011) | #183 |
| 2020s | 8,598 | #197 (2020) | #209 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alaina in 1950
Top girls' names in 1950
More about 1950
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1,713,054 girls got a published name in 1950; 1 in 342,611 of them was named Alaina, which outranked 13.2% of the 6,109 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 808 names at #5,301; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.