Alaina Girl
How popular is Alaina?
#224 girl name in 2025
1,366 baby girls were named Alaina in the US in 2025, making it the 224th most popular girl name.
Alaina popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #224 for girls (▼ 12 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,366 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-25% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #176 in 2015, #197 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2011 (1,999 girls) |
| Highest rank | #156 in 2011 |
| First recorded | 1946 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 1.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Alaina counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Alaina family of names ranked #143 for girls in 2025 (#135 the year before), with 2,327 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Alaina is most popular
Babies named Alaina per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- West Virginia: 2.5 per 1,000 (65 girls)
- Maine: 1.7 per 1,000 (27 girls)
- Kentucky: 1.7 per 1,000 (148 girls)
- Iowa: 1.7 per 1,000 (99 girls)
- Rhode Island: 1.7 per 1,000 (21 girls)
Alaina by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 24 | #3,238 |
| 1950s | 92 | #2,516 |
| 1960s | 415 | #1,387 |
| 1970s | 901 | #808 |
| 1980s | 4,404 | #456 |
| 1990s | 6,497 | #341 |
| 2000s | 12,350 | #224 |
| 2010s | 17,297 | #156 |
| 2020s | 8,598 | #197 |
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Questions
- Is Alaina a boy or girl name?
- Alaina is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Alaina were girls.
- How popular is the name Alaina?
- 1,366 baby girls were named Alaina in the US in 2025, making it the 224th most popular girl name.
- When was Alaina most popular?
- Alaina peaked in 2011, when 1,999 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #156 in 2011.
- How many people are named Alaina?
- 50,584 babies have been named Alaina in the US since 1880. We estimate about 50,009 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 16.
- Where is Alaina most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Alaina was most common in West Virginia, at 2.5 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.