Alaina
For 2025 the count puts Alaina at #224 nationwide, keeping its place without fuss. Its record runs from 1946 through a 2011 peak, 50,578 children in all.
Alaina’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Alaina, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Alaina since 1946
Alaina peaked in 2011 at #156; #224 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Alaina is most common
Among the states, Alaina takes its largest share in Delaware, 0.31% of the girls' names recorded there in 2025, with South Dakota and Maine next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Alaina
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Arianna
#234 in 2025
Aitana
#211 in 2025
Abraham
#209 in 2025
Adonis
#241 in 2025
Amora
#247 in 2025
Alora
#195 in 2025
Amari
#185 in 2025
Adalynn
#184 in 2025
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About Alaina
How common is Alaina today?
For 2025 the count puts Alaina at #224 nationwide, keeping its place without fuss. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1946.
What does Alaina mean?
Honestly: our cited sources are silent on Alaina, and we would rather show you nothing than something made up.
Which names sit near Alaina?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Arianna sits closest, with Aitana and Abraham just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
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