Alline
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Alline has been given to 1,918 babies in the U.S. since 1887. 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 1921, with 79 recorded.
Babies named Alline, 1998
1 in 735,000
Alline 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Alline?
Alline had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1998
- 1 in 735,000
- 5 of 3,677,189 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 353,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1998
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 509,768 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Alline sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1998 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 509,768 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Allines were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Alline was born before 1924 — so the typical Alline is around 101 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 32.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 0.83%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 135
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (617).
Is Alline 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1921 (79)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.5% average annual change
Spellings of Alline
Alline is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 29.5% against Alline's 0.10%.
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 Alline is used
Across 1910–2025, Alline was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 74,163 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Arkansas1 in 33,333
- 2Georgia1 in 50,000
- 3Kentucky1 in 50,000
- 4Tennessee1 in 50,000
- 5Alabama1 in 100,000
- 6Missouri1 in 100,000
- 7Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 8North Carolina1 in 100,000
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. Alline has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Alline around the world
Where Alline 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.
- France1902–1902#737in 1902
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Alline by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Alline
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Alline
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.