Alyna
#2,020 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Alyna has been given to 2,897 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #2,020 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 178 recorded.
Babies named Alyna, 2025
1 in 35,300
Alyna 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Alyna?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 35,300
- 94 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 17,100
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,020
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 24,447 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Alyna 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 24,447 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alyna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Alynas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Alyna was born before 2011 — so the typical Alyna is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 37.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 87.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,897
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 37.1% of all recorded uses (1,074).
Is Alyna 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
- −23
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +258
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −289
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.78×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 52.8%
- Peak was 2007 (178)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.7% average annual change
Spellings of Alyna
Alyna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 26.3% against Alyna'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 Alyna is used
Across 2016–2025, Alyna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 5,882 girls, against 1 in 10,106 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 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.
Alyna around the world
Where Alyna 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 & Wales2005–2025#5,927in 2025
- France2003–2025#1,169in 2025
- Canada1999–2024#2,463in 2024
- South Australia1990–2008#796in 2008
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.
Alyna by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Alyna
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Alyna
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alyna, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Alyna
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.