Alhena
#13,286 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Alhena has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 2015. In 2025 it ranked #13,286 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Alhena, 2025
1 in 553,000
Alhena 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Alhena?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #13,286
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Alhena sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alhena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Alhenas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Alhena was born before 2022 — so the typical Alhena is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 57.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 28
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 57.1% of all recorded uses (16).
Is Alhena 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
- +1,299
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2015 (6)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Alhena
Alhena is not the most common spelling — Lena is, with 16.9% against Alhena's <0.01%.
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.
Alhena around the world
Where Alhena 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 & Wales2000–2013#3,536in 2013
- France2002–2025#5,474in 2025
- Canada2023–2023#2,973in 2023
- South Australia2010–2010#801in 2010
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.
Alhena by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Alhena
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Alhena
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.