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.
Where Alaina is popular in 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alaska#69 · 1 in 229
- West Virginia#71 · 1 in 285
- Missouri#71 · 1 in 356
- Indiana#72 · 1 in 353
- Montana#77 · 1 in 257
Best ever in a state: #64 in West Virginia, 2015.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | #69 | 11 | 1 in 229 |
| Missouri | #71 | 76 | 1 in 356 |
| West Virginia | #71 | 23 | 1 in 285 |
| Indiana | #72 | 86 | 1 in 353 |
| Montana | #77 | 11 | 1 in 257 |
| Michigan | #81 | 107 | 1 in 387 |
| Ohio | #84 | 129 | 1 in 400 |
| Pennsylvania | #85 | 125 | 1 in 422 |
| Iowa | #92 | 34 | 1 in 366 |
| Wisconsin | #95 | 56 | 1 in 419 |
| Nebraska | #102 | 20 | 1 in 389 |
| Mississippi | #114 | 24 | 1 in 464 |
| Maryland | #120 | 48 | 1 in 500 |
| Delaware | #123 | 8 | 1 in 345 |
| Idaho | #124 | 13 | 1 in 472 |
| Kansas | #124 | 26 | 1 in 488 |
| Virginia | #128 | 62 | 1 in 582 |
| Louisiana | #131 | 34 | 1 in 574 |
| Illinois | #134 | 94 | 1 in 633 |
| Kentucky | #136 | 32 | 1 in 574 |
| Alabama | #137 | 32 | 1 in 584 |
| South Carolina | #144 | 27 | 1 in 647 |
| Washington | #144 | 48 | 1 in 629 |
| North Carolina | #145 | 67 | 1 in 659 |
| Georgia | #150 | 69 | 1 in 691 |
| North Dakota | #152 | 6 | 1 in 451 |
| Hawaii | #164 | 7 | 1 in 480 |
| Colorado | #166 | 32 | 1 in 700 |
| Minnesota | #169 | 34 | 1 in 703 |
| Florida | #172 | 96 | 1 in 828 |
| South Dakota | #179 | 6 | 1 in 505 |
| Massachusetts | #192 | 33 | 1 in 774 |
| Tennessee | #195 | 35 | 1 in 846 |
| Arizona | #202 | 34 | 1 in 897 |
| Oklahoma | #221 | 18 | 1 in 909 |
| Maine | #222 | 5 | 1 in 732 |
| Texas | #222 | 144 | 1 in 1,083 |
| New York | #225 | 84 | 1 in 1,104 |
| New Hampshire | #228 | 5 | 1 in 790 |
| New Jersey | #230 | 34 | 1 in 1,087 |
| Oregon | #250 | 15 | 1 in 989 |
| Connecticut | #271 | 11 | 1 in 1,097 |
| Arkansas | #297 | 10 | 1 in 1,152 |
| New Mexico | #361 | 6 | 1 in 1,220 |
| Utah | #365 | 12 | 1 in 1,496 |
| Nevada | #395 | 7 | 1 in 1,500 |
| California | #422 | 94 | 1 in 2,209 |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 880 of them was named Alaina, which outranked 99.2% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.