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 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 3,459 of them was named Alaina, which outranked 96.9% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 333,488 of them was named Alaina, which outranked 24.8% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,229Zekiel7
- #6,229Zubin7
- #6,229Zvi7
- #6,941Alaina6
- #6,941Aaran6
- #6,941Abayomi6
- #6,941Abrham6
- #7,905Aakeem5
- #7,905Aaric5
- #7,905Aaronmichael5
Tied with 963 names at #6,941; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.