Alina

What Alina means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Alina yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #173 in 2015 to #130 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Alina?

US: Rising: up from #173 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #357 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 2,204 girls got the name (#130 that year). First in the US records in 1892.

How common

• About 1 in 729 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,218 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,491 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in HI (5.13 per 1,000 girls), DC (3.96 per 1,000 girls), ND (3.7 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Alina is #130 in the US and #224 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Alina were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Elena4,836 US · 307 E&W
• Alana2,085 US · 190 E&W
• Alani1,843 US · 40 E&W
• Alaina1,366 US · 49 E&W
• Elaina1,176 US · 37 E&W
• Alanna1,099 US · 44 E&W
• Alayna927 US · 214 E&W
• Aleena436 US · 150 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Alina

Girls

• Emory#339Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #339 vs #3,705 in 2025
• Adeline#59Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*
• Matilda#364Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #19 vs #364 in 2025
• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025
• Willa#422Editor’s note Up from #480 in 2015 to #422 in 2025 in the US
• Adelaide#289“noble + nature, character”^*

For a brother

• Milo#119Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #288 in 2015, #119 in 2025
• Henry#5Editor’s note Up from #29 in 2015 to #5 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 140 US boys in the 2025 records
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Oliver#3Editor’s note Up from #19 in 2015 to #3 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 110 US boys in the 2025 records
• Emory#883Editor’s note Down from #830 in 2015 to #883 in 2025 in the US
• Bruno#740“brown”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Alina’s. Rank is US 2025.