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Alin

#10,967 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Masculine form of Alina

Alin has been given to 650 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #10,967 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 38 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 78% girls, 22% boys all-time.

Babies named Alin, 2025

1 in 414,000

Alin over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Alin over time

In 2025, Alin went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19852025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Alin: meaning, origin, and history

Masculine form of Alina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alin means

Alin is a masculine form of Alina.

Origin, language, and formation

Alin is used in Romanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 506 girls were recorded with the name Alin between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2007; its best national rank was #4,055 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,298 in 2020 to #10,967 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,639 in 2015 to #10,967 in 2025.

In the United States, 144 boys were recorded with the name Alin between 1985 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2005; its best national rank was #6,550 in 1985.

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 Alin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,967
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alin 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alin was born before 2008 — so the typical Alin is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
46.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
506
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 46.8% of all recorded uses (237).

Is Alin 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
−2,495
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−669
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,328
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.53×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.1%
Peak was 2007 (38)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,055
2007

Spellings of Alin

Alin is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 19.8% against Alin's 0.02%.

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 Alin is used

Across 1910–2025, Alin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 392,309 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Alin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alin around the world

Where Alin 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
    2012–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    2009–2022
    #6,166
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2019–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Alin by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,967
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 669
Best rank ever
#4,055
2007
Peak year
2007
38 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
506
Count in 2025
8

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,550
1985
Peak year
2005
9 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
144
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alin

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

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Sibling names for Alin

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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