Alona
#3,517 for girls in 2025, 43 births
- Peak · girls
- 1943 · 56 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,197since 1917
Alona over time
Rank among girls' names. Alona has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,517 | 43 |
| 2024 | #3,225 | 49 |
| 2023 | #3,833 | 39 |
| 2022 | #3,278 | 49 |
| 2021 | #3,390 | 46 |
| 2020 | #2,712 | 61 |
| 2019 | #3,272 | 48 |
| 2018 | #2,810 | 60 |
| 2017 | #2,432 | 74 |
| 2016 | #2,667 | 65 |
| 2015 | #2,408 | 76 |
| 2014 | #2,560 | 69 |
| 2013 | #2,364 | 77 |
| 2012 | #2,265 | 83 |
| 2011 | #2,909 | 59 |
| 2010 | #2,296 | 83 |
| 2009 | #2,165 | 92 |
| 2008 | #2,004 | 104 |
| 2007 | #2,177 | 91 |
| 2006 | #1,939 | 103 |
| 2005 | #1,894 | 102 |
| 2004 | #2,309 | 75 |
| 2003 | #2,439 | 67 |
| 2002 | #2,854 | 52 |
| 2001 | #2,360 | 67 |
| 2000 | #2,740 | 53 |
| 1999 | #2,737 | 50 |
| 1998 | #2,756 | 48 |
| 1997 | #2,590 | 49 |
| 1996 | #2,796 | 43 |
| 1995 | #4,099 | 25 |
| 1994 | #4,115 | 25 |
| 1993 | #3,877 | 27 |
| 1992 | #4,236 | 24 |
| 1991 | #4,059 | 25 |
| 1990 | #4,120 | 24 |
| 1989 | #3,784 | 26 |
| 1988 | #3,805 | 24 |
| 1987 | #2,780 | 35 |
| 1986 | #2,228 | 46 |
| 1985 | #1,263 | 107 |
| 1984 | #4,737 | 15 |
| 1983 | #4,476 | 16 |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 |
| 1980 | #3,992 | 19 |
| 1979 | #3,333 | 24 |
| 1978 | #3,196 | 24 |
| 1977 | #4,652 | 14 |
| 1976 | #3,540 | 19 |
| 1975 | #3,155 | 22 |
| 1974 | #5,011 | 11 |
| 1973 | #3,481 | 18 |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 |
| 1970 | #3,712 | 16 |
| 1969 | #3,461 | 16 |
| 1968 | #3,315 | 16 |
| 1967 | #3,085 | 17 |
| 1966 | #2,586 | 22 |
| 1965 | #3,733 | 12 |
| 1964 | #3,692 | 13 |
| 1963 | #3,458 | 14 |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 |
| 1961 | #3,793 | 12 |
| 1960 | #3,688 | 12 |
| 1959 | #4,300 | 9 |
| 1958 | #4,193 | 9 |
| 1957 | #4,536 | 8 |
| 1956 | #4,161 | 9 |
| 1955 | #3,778 | 10 |
| 1954 | #3,019 | 14 |
| 1953 | #3,106 | 13 |
| 1952 | #2,502 | 18 |
| 1951 | #3,284 | 11 |
| 1950 | #3,052 | 12 |
| 1949 | #2,134 | 21 |
| 1948 | #2,008 | 23 |
| 1947 | #1,993 | 24 |
| 1946 | #1,131 | 56 |
| 1945 | #1,743 | 23 |
| 1944 | #2,027 | 18 |
| 1943 | #1,070 | 56 |
| 1942 | #2,416 | 14 |
| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 |
| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | #3,847 | 6 |
| 1937 | #3,434 | 7 |
| 1936 | — | |
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 |
| 1934 | #3,802 | 6 |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 |
| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 |
| 1931 | #3,848 | 6 |
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| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 |
| 1928 | — | |
| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 |
| 1926 | #4,851 | 5 |
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| 1922 | #5,009 | 5 |
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| 1918 | #3,512 | 8 |
| 1917 | #3,092 | 9 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alona! It came in at #3,092, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1926, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Alona is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,056 · 1 in 30,215
Best ever in a state: #543 in Michigan, 1945.
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| California | #2,056 | 6 | 1 in 30,215 |
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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 Alona
- 292 spots since 2024 (#3,225 → #3,517)
- 805 spots since 2020 (#2,712 → #3,517)
- 1,109 spots since 2015 (#2,408 → #3,517)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1943 at #1,070 (56 births)
- Births halved by 1944, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,083 girls born in 1985 were named Alona (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 37,378 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,070 in 1943, was only 1 in 24,916 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.2% of all girls named Alona (806) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 17 | #3,092 (1917) | #3,302 |
| 1920s | 21 | #4,286 (1927) | #4,679 |
| 1930s | 40 | #3,434 (1937) | #3,966 |
| 1940s | 248 | #1,070 (1943) | #2,198 |
| 1950s | 113 | #2,502 (1952) | #3,593 |
| 1960s | 144 | #2,586 (1966) | #3,507 |
| 1970s | 167 | #3,155 (1975) | #4,088 |
| 1980s | 320 | #1,263 (1985) | #3,612 |
| 1990s | 340 | #2,590 (1997) | #3,539 |
| 2000s | 806 | #1,894 (2005) | #2,288 |
| 2010s | 694 | #2,265 (2012) | #2,598 |
| 2020s | 287 | #2,712 (2020) | #3,326 |
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.
Alona in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 104,254 of them was named Alona, which outranked 62.8% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,344Wynette17
- #4,344Yahira17
- #4,344Youlanda17
- #4,532Alona16
- #4,532Adriel16
- #4,532Alicen16
- #4,532Alyshia16
- #4,746Aaryn15
- #4,746Adell15
- #4,746Adella15
Tied with 213 names at #4,532; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.