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Aloha

#15,059 in 2025Girls' name

Love

Aloha has been given to 867 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #15,059 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1927, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Aloha, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aloha: meaning, origin, and history

Love

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aloha means

Aloha means “love”, associated with aloha.

Origin, language, and formation

Aloha is used in Hawaiian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Aloha is pronounced /aˈlo.ha/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 867 girls were recorded with the name Aloha between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1927; its best national rank was #1,245 in 1933.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,149 in 2020 to #15,059 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 Aloha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,059
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aloha 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aloha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alohas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aloha was born before 1936 — so the typical Aloha is around 89 today.

Median birth year
1936
About 89 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
208
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1920s — 23.3% of all recorded uses (202).

Is Aloha 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
−3,910
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
13.5%
Peak was 1927 (37)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,245
1933

Spellings of Aloha

Aloha is not the most common spelling — Alma is, with 15.1% against Aloha's 0.08%.

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 Aloha is used

Across 1910–2025, Aloha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 485,236 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Aloha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aloha around the world

Where Aloha 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.

  • France
    1993–2022
    #5,359
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1997–1997
    #681
    in 1997

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Aloha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,059
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,910
Best rank ever
#1,245
1933
Peak year
1927
37 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
867
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Aloha

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

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Sibling names for Aloha

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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