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Alene

#15,037 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Aline

Alene has been given to 8,753 babies in the U.S. since 1883. In 2025 it ranked #15,037 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1920, with 264 recorded.

Babies named Alene, 2025

1 in 663,000

Alene over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alene: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Aline

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alene means

Alene is a variant of Aline.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Alene is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aline.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,748 girls were recorded with the name Alene between 1883 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 264 in 1920; its best national rank was #409 in 1920.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,579 in 2020 to #15,037 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,508 in 2015 to #15,037 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Alene between 1928 and 1928. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1928; its best national rank was #4,159 in 1928.

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 Alene?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,037
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alene 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alene was born before 1930 — so the typical Alene is around 95 today.

Median birth year
1930
About 95 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
26.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,827
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1920s — 26.9% of all recorded uses (2,351).

Is Alene 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
−1,485
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,458
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,529
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.9%
Peak was 1920 (264)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#409
1920

Spellings of Alene

Alene is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 19.9% against Alene's 0.30%.

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 Alene is used

Across 1910–2025, Alene was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 26,523 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

020 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 5,000
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 6,250
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 7,143
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 9,091
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 10,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in 12,500
  7. 7Georgia1 in 12,500
  8. 8Mississippi1 in 14,286

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. Alene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alene around the world

Where Alene 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.

  • South Australia
    1951–2001
    #711
    in 2001

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Alene

People whose public names include Alene, 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.

Alene in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Alene. Linked forms have their own page here.

AlenaAlinaAlineAlyneEleneAlleneAelene

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Alene by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,037
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,458
Best rank ever
#409
1920
Peak year
1920
264 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,748
Count in 2025
5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,159
1928
Peak year
1928
5 that year
First recorded
1928
Last recorded
1928
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alene

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

AletaAlenaAleahAleeneAlexiAlexAleshaAlesiaAleiaAleciaAleenaAleenAleyaAlexysAlexusAleaAlessiaAlessaAleynaAleyahIleneAlleneAletheaAleigha

Names with a curve like Alene

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

LorineMarjoryFlorineWildaVerlaVerniceDorrisMargaretteHarrietteMyrtisEnidBeryl

Sibling names for Alene

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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