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Alyona

#10,975 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Yelena

Alyona has been given to 315 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #10,975 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Alyona, 2025

1 in 414,000

Alyona over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alyona: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Yelena

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alyona means

Alyona is a diminutive of Yelena.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Alyona → Yelena → Helena → Ἑλένη. The family’s meaning is “to shine, warm, smoulder, burn”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements swel-.

Origin, language, and formation

Alyona is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yelena, Алёна and Альо́на.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 315 girls were recorded with the name Alyona between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2015; its best national rank was #6,735 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,994 in 2020 to #10,975 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,735 in 2015 to #10,975 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 Alyona?

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
#10,975
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alyona 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 Alyona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alyonas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alyona was born before 2012 — so the typical Alyona is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
315
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.4% of all recorded uses (124).

Is Alyona 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
−659
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,981
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,240
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
44.4%
Peak was 2015 (18)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,735
2015

Spellings of Alyona

Alyona is not the most common spelling — Alyssa is, with 35.1% against Alyona's 0.04%.

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.

Alyona around the world

Where Alyona 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
    2009–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • France
    2003–2025
    #6,042
    in 2025

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

Alyona by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,975
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,981
Best rank ever
#6,735
2015
Peak year
2015
18 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
315
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Alyona

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

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Sibling names for Alyona

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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