How rare is the name Alaina?

38,346 people in the United States have the first name Alaina, about 1 in 7,876. It ranks #1,079 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ALAINA

#1,079

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
38,346
About
1 in 7,876
This common or more
71.1%
Who bears it

Of the 38,346 people named Alaina, 70.8% reported their origin as White, 11.8% as Hispanic or Latino and 8% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Alaina peaked in 2011, when 1,999 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19462025
Peak year
2011
Births that year
1,999
In 2025*
1,366 ▼32%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 50,584 babies have been given the name since 1946. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Alaina by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #415. The largest share of babies named Alaina, 40.5%, were born in 2013 or later.

1940s#8,83924
1950s#6,09392
1960s#2,882415
1970s#2,079901
1980s#8854,410
1990s#7736,497
2000s#53412,350
2010s#41517,297
2020s#4668,598
Baby boom 1946–640.5%
Generation X 1965–803.1%
Millennials 1981–9616.4%
Generation Z 1997–1239.5%
2013 and later40.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Alaina is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Alaina has been most common in Louisiana (1.5×), Michigan (1.5×), and Ohio (1.4×), and least common in District of Columbia (0.14×).

48,365 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Alaina

#1,077 Joaquin · 38,466#1,078 Janis · 38,436#1,080 Leigh · 38,258#1,081 Tricia · 38,252

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Alaina, most common first.

#848 Alana · 54,144#1,020 Alina · 41,648#1,378 Alayna · 25,758#1,589 Alanna · 20,264#2,702 Alain · 8,688#10,034 Alaine · 1,349#14,737 Alahna · 794#16,643 Alauna · 674

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