Alina

Where Alina comes from

Borrowed from Italian Alina, or a Latinate form of French Aline, ultimately from diminutives of the same Germanic name Adela, Adele.
— Wiktionary's entry for Alina
  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1892
    First appearance
    #1,450 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1983
    Alina Kabaeva born
    Russian gymnast and politician, alleged partner of Vladimir Putin
  3. 2002
    Alina Zagitova born
    Russian figure skater
  4. 2025
    Peak, #130
    2,204 babies named Alina — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Alina Zagitova · Russian figure skater, born 2002
  • Alina Kabaeva · Russian gymnast and politician, alleged partner of Vladimir Putin, born 1983
  • Alina Talay · Belarusian hurdler, born 1989
  • Alina Dumitru · Romanian judoka, born 1982
  • Alina Orlova · Lithuanian singer, born 1988

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.