Aleane
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Aleane has been given to 92 babies in the U.S. since 1910. 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 1923, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Aleane, 1946
1 in 533,000
Aleane 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Aleane?
Aleane had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1946, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1946
- 1 in 533,000
- 6 of 3,195,175 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 262,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1946
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 369,122 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Aleane sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1946 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 369,122 children born in 1946 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aleane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Aleanes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Aleane was born before 1926 — so the typical Aleane is around 99 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 43.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 72.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (40).
Is Aleane 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1923 (9)
- Years since peak
- 102
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.9% average annual change
Spellings of Aleane
Aleane is not the most common spelling — Arlene is, with 28.1% against Aleane's 0.02%.
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.
Aleane around the world
Where Aleane 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.
- France2009–2018#5,687in 2018
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Aleane by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Aleane
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Aleane
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.