Alayne
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Alayne has been given to 1,091 babies in the U.S. since 1929. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1965, with 41 recorded.
Babies named Alayne, 2024
1 in 478,000
Alayne over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Alayne?
Alayne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 231,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Alayne sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alayne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Alaynes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Alayne was born before 1965 — so the typical Alayne is around 60 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 18.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 11.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 831
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 18.5% of all recorded uses (202).
Is Alayne rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1965 (41)
- Years since peak
- 60
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.2% average annual change
Spellings of Alayne
Alayne is not the most common spelling — Elaine is, with 40.1% against Alayne's 0.17%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Alayne is used
Across 1910–2025, Alayne was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 653,590 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Michigan1 in —
- 3New Jersey1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Ohio1 in —
- 6Utah1 in —
- 7Washington1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Alayne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Alayne around the world
Where Alayne ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Scotland1981–1981#537in 1981
- South Australia1948–1992#704in 1992
Popularity data from National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Alayne by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Alayne
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Alayne
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.