Alenka

Girls' name

Diminutive of Alena

Alenka has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1994. 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 2005, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Alenka, 2014

1 in 741,000

Alenka over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alenka: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Alena

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alenka means

Alenka is a diminutive of Alena.

Origin, language, and formation

Alenka is used in Czech and Slovene.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alena.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Alenka is pronounced [ˈalɛŋka].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Alenka between 1994 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2005; its best national rank was #13,486 in 1994.

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.

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How common is Alenka?

Alenka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014: 1 in 741,000; 5 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only: 1 in 357,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 513,874 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Alenka 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 2014 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 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alenka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alenkas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alenka was born before 2005 — so the typical Alenka is around 20 today.

Median birth year: 2005; About 20 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 16; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Alenka 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2005 (6)
Years since peak: 20; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #13,486; 1994

Spellings of Alenka

Alenka is not the most common spelling — Lena is, with 16.9% against Alenka's <0.01%.

Lena16.9%146,479
Alexa15.1%131,551
Glenda12.6%109,227
Elena12.4%108,013
Alana7.9%68,264
Alexia5.3%46,192
Alina5.2%45,387
Alanna3.1%27,012

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.

Alenka around the world

Where Alenka 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
2017–2017
#4,763
in 2017
France
2017–2017
#7,757
in 2017
South Australia
1970–1970
#707
in 1970

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

Alenka by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #13,486; 1994
Peak year: 2005; 6 that year
First recorded: 1994
Last recorded: 2014
All-time count: 16
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Alenka

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

Alenny Alenys Aleesi Alesya Alelia Aleata Alekza Alecxa Alexey Alezae Alenis Aleyha Alesea Aletza Aleara Alenia Aleira Aleita Aleasa Alecha Aletra Alecsa Aleyse Aletsey

Sibling names for Alenka

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

For a sister

Jaci Yahaira Pilar Jamya Yajaira Riya Dayanara Makena

For a brother

Braulio Johnpaul Jamarion Kenyon Paulo Yair Kadin Lavon

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