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Alona

#3,520 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Alon

Alona has been given to 3,197 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #3,520 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1985, with 107 recorded.

Babies named Alona, 2025

1 in 77,100

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alona: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Alon

Hebrew

What Alona means

Alona is a feminine form of Alon.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Alona → Alon. The family’s meaning is “oak tree”, recorded in English with the source elements alon.

Origin, language, and formation

Alona is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alon.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,197 girls were recorded with the name Alona between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 107 in 1985; its best national rank was #1,070 in 1943.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,715 in 2020 to #3,520 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,410 in 2015 to #3,520 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 Alona?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 77,100
43 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 37,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,520
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
53,441 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alona 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 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alonas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alona was born before 2003 — so the typical Alona is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
25.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,871
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 25.2% of all recorded uses (806).

Is Alona 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
−294
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−805
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,110
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.2%
Peak was 1985 (107)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,070
1943

Spellings of Alona

Alona is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 28.8% against Alona'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 Alona is used

Across 2016–2025, Alona was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 71,852 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 20,000
  2. 2Kansas1 in 25,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 33,333
  4. 4Ohio1 in 50,000
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 50,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 50,000
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 50,000

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.

Alona around the world

Where Alona 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
    1997–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1999–2022
    #4,535
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2017–2022
    #2,896
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1972–2010
    #801
    in 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.

Notable people named Alona

People whose public names include Alona, 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.

Alona in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Alona. Linked forms have their own page here.

ElonaAlionaAlyonaAljona

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Alona by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,520
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 805
Best rank ever
#1,070
1943
Peak year
1985
107 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,197
Count in 2025
43

Names similar to Alona

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

AlonnaKeonaIlonaAlohaAloraAloniKionaKeyonaWynonaSimonaDeonaElonaAlorahSedonaVeronaZonaTeonaRomonaAlomaOonaJonaShonaSonaTona

Names with a curve like Alona

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

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Sibling names for Alona

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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