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Aleen

#3,168 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Aleen has been given to 2,726 babies in the U.S. since 1896. In 2025 it ranked #3,168 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 86 recorded.

Babies named Aleen, 2025

1 in 66,300

Aleen over time, 1880–2025

Girls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aleen: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aleen means

Aleen is a given name.

The naming story behind Aleen

Wikidata records Aleen as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q64221188, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,726 girls were recorded with the name Aleen between 1896 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 86 in 2019; its best national rank was #917 in 1900.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,525 in 2020 to #3,168 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,524 in 2015 to #3,168 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Aleen?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 66,300
50 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 32,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,168
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aleen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 45,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aleen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aleens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aleen was born before 1967 — so the typical Aleen is around 58 today.

Median birth year
1967
About 58 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
21.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,525
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 21.6% of all recorded uses (590).

Is Aleen 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
−236
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−643
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−644
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.1%
Peak was 2019 (86)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#917
1900

Spellings of Aleen

Aleen is not the most common spelling — Ellen is, with 26.2% against Aleen's 0.26%.

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 Aleen is used

Across 1910–2025, Aleen was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 141,912 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 100,000
  5. 5Missouri1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Florida1 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. Aleen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aleen around the world

Where Aleen 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.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2025
    #1,892
    in 2025
  • France
    2016–2025
    #7,247
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Aleen

People whose public names include Aleen, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Aleen by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,168
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 643
Best rank ever
#917
1900
Peak year
2019
86 that year
First recorded
1896
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,726
Count in 2025
50

Names similar to Aleen

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Aleen

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aleen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Aleen

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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