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Aleyna

#1,173 in 2025Girls' name

To shine, warm, smoulder, burn, through Ἑλένη

Aleyna has been given to 2,938 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #1,173 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 268 recorded.

Babies named Aleyna, 2025

1 in 16,800

Aleyna over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aleyna: meaning, origin, and history

To shine, warm, smoulder, burn, through Ἑλένη

Ancient Greek

What Aleyna means

Aleyna belongs to the name family reached through Aleyna → Ἑλένη. Its meaning is “to shine, warm, smoulder, burn”.

Origin, language, and formation

Aleyna is used in Turkish. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Aleyna comes through Ancient Greek Ἑλένη.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ἑλένη.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,938 girls were recorded with the name Aleyna between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 268 in 2023; its best national rank was #964 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,698 in 2020 to #1,173 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,840 in 2015 to #1,173 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aleyna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 16,800
197 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,160
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,173
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,666 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aleyna 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,666 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aleyna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aleynas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aleyna was born before 2017 — so the typical Aleyna is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
37.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,938
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 37.9% of all recorded uses (1,114).

Is Aleyna 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
+58
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+525
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+667
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.76×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
73.5%
Peak was 2023 (268)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#964
2023

Spellings of Aleyna

Aleyna is not the most common spelling — Lena is, with 13.0% against Aleyna'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 Aleyna is used

Across 2016–2025, Aleyna was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 4,167 girls, against 1 in 9,214 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 50,000).

224 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 4,167
  2. 2California1 in 6,667
  3. 3Arizona1 in 7,143
  4. 4Florida1 in 7,692
  5. 5New York1 in 8,333
  6. 6Illinois1 in 11,111
  7. 7Nevada1 in 12,500
  8. 8Georgia1 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.

Aleyna around the world

Where Aleyna 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
    1996–2025
    #1,051
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2013–2013
    #440
    in 2013
  • France
    1997–2025
    #299
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #1,349
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2000–2006
    #782
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA 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 Aleyna

People whose public names include Aleyna, 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.

Aleyna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,173
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 525
Best rank ever
#964
2023
Peak year
2023
268 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,938
Count in 2025
197

Names similar to Aleyna

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

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Names with a curve like Aleyna

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

SafaYunaZarahLailaniSiyaAsiyaImogenZiaYusraMaelynMemphisAmyra

Sibling names for Aleyna

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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