Alene

Where Alene comes from

Alene hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1883
    First appearance
    #920 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1920
    Alene Duerk born
    United States Navy admiral
  3. 1920
    Peak, #409
    264 babies named Alene — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1933
    Alene S. Ammond born
    American politician
  5. 1939
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #606.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Alene Duerk · United States Navy admiral, 1920–2018
  • Alene S. Ammond · American politician, 1933–2019

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.