How popular is the name Alaina?

Alaina ranks 544th among girls' names in US records, with 49,312 births since 1946. Over the past decade it accounts for 15,656.

Is Alaina a unisex name?

No. Alaina is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

2011, when 1,998 children were given the name. It has been in use for 79 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#544 of girl names

Pronounced AE1 L AH0 IY1 N AH0 (ARPABET)

Alaina is a girls' name, and first appears in 1946. It has been given to 49,312 children — the 544th most common girls' name on record.

Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 2011, when 1,998 children were given it.

2011Girls: 1,998Boys: 0

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Alaina?: Alaina ranks 544th among girls' names in US records, with 49,312 births since 1946. Over the past decade it accounts for 15,656.
Is Alaina a unisex name?: No. Alaina is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Alaina most popular?: 2011, when 1,998 children were given the name. It has been in use for 79 years and is still recorded as of 2024.