Alina

femaleUsed across Romanian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Slovene, German, Italian and Spanish traditions

A short form derived from longer names ending in '-alina', such as Adelina and Albina.

Origin: Used across Romanian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Slovene, German, Italian and Spanish traditions

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1958 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #37 in Norway in 2015. See regions.

Alina: Recorded since 1958, it reached #37 in 2015, and it stood at #146 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
122times a registrar ranked it
68years from first to last
#37highest recorded position
25groupings it qualifies for

ah-LEE-nah/a.ˈli.na/

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Data Confidence

Evidence: ModerateCompleteness: SubstantialEditorial review: 2026-07-21

Confidence in the evidencebehind this name's data — never a rating of the name itself, and never affected by how well it matches your preferences. How this is assessed

Because: backed by officially or academically authoritative sources, recently verified, popularity data covers multiple regions.

Source authority

Averaged from the real per-claim source-authority assessments already computed for this name's meaning/origin/pronunciation/popularity evidence.

Independent corroboration

Averaged from the real per-claim supporting-source counts already computed for this name's evidence.

See full evidence assessment (8 dimensions, 1 not yet tracked)

Source agreement

No recorded source disagreement for this name's meanings or origins.

Recency

Calculated from how long ago this record was last verified (2026-07-21), against a 270-day staleness threshold.

Geographic relevance

Calculated from the number of geographies with official popularity data (5) — broader official coverage means the evidence base is relevant to more of where the name is actually used.

Completeness

Calculated from how many of the expected data sections (variants, similar names, popularity, notable usage, IPA pronunciation) are actually populated for this name.

Direct observation vs. inference

Averaged from the real per-claim direct-observation-vs-inference ratios already computed for this name's evidence.

Identity & variant resolution quality

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Name Characteristics

How these are calculated

Descriptive attributes of the name itself — not a confidence measurement, and not an overall quality score. Namewise doesn't approve or disapprove of names.

Pronunciation clarity

Editorial judgement of how consistently this name is pronounced correctly on first read, mapped from an easy/moderate/variable rating to a number. Describes the name — not a measure of evidence confidence.

Spelling simplicity

Calculated directly from the name's spelling: shorter names with fewer irregular letter clusters score higher. A disclosed formula, not an editorial opinion — and not a confidence measurement.

Recorded regional spread

Derived from how many geographies' official statistics record this name. It measures where the name is registered, not how well-known it feels to people living there.

International spread

Derived from the same official statistical coverage, scaled to reflect how widely the name crosses national datasets. Not a measure of how easily it is understood in another language.

Trend stability

Derived from the name's traditional/modern classification and its current popularity trend direction.

Overview

Origin: Used across Romanian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Slovene, German, Italian and Spanish traditions
Meaning: A short form derived from longer names ending in '-alina', such as Adelina and Albina.
Pronunciation: ah-LEE-nah
Syllables: 3
Common nicknames: None recorded
Classification: Traditional & modern
Gender usage: female
Language family: Used across Romanian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Slovene, German, Italian and Spanish traditions

Popularity

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2025

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#582
1997	#429
1998	#514
1999	#521
2000	#446
2001	#428
2002	#391
2003	#359
2004	#307
2005	#313
2006	#354
2007	#352
2008	#336
2009	#328
2010	#393
2011	#328
2012	#395
2013	#322
2014	#363
2015	#357
2016	#315
2017	#324
2018	#346
2019	#275
2020	#304
2021	#260
2022	#236
2023	#264
2024	#268
2025	#224

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 63 of the 68 years from 1958 to 2025.

In 2025: #146 among girls in Norway, #224 among girls in England and Wales, #325 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1958–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1958
First recorded at #400 among girls in Norway in 1958 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #224 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Alina appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 63 years beginning in 1958, and has registered 1,499 births with the name.

Alina across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Alina's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#400 (1958)	#37 (2015)	#146 (2025)	63 of 68	1,499 (1958–2025)	142 (2015)
England and Wales · Girls	#582 (1996)	#224 (2025)	#224 (2025)	30 of 30	3,816 (1996–2025)	208 (2025)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#439 (1999)	#314 (2009)	#325 (2025)	26 of 27	204 (1999–2025)	15 (2009)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#434 (2018)	#298 (2019)	#298 (2019)	2 of 2	8 (2018–2019)	5 (2019)

Alina by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Alina in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	9	2 of 10	5
1960s	30	6 of 10	5
1970s	91	9 of 10	10
1980s	227	10 of 10	23
1990s	173	10 of 10	17
2000s	233	10 of 10	23
2010sbusiest	520	10 of 10	52
2020s	216	6 of 10	36

Across Norway · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 52 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2014 and 2015, when recorded births rose by 96, from 46 to 142.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Alina appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1958 and 2025, ranked in 63 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #37, first reached in 2015.

It held a top-100 place in 2 years, 2 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 208 births, registered in England and Wales in 2025.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 66 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Alina was ranked #37 in Norway · Girls in 2015. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Victoria#33
Hanna#34
Eline#35
Live#36
Elise#38
Amanda#39
Malin#40
Julia#41

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Alima · #969, 30y
Alin · #451, 21y
Alinah · #3197, 14y
Aline · #265, 40y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Eve · #36, 60y
Ronnie · #39, 60y
Damien · #34, 62y
Lesley · #34, 68y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Leslie · #37, 68y
Narelle · #37, 25y
Russell · #37, 71y
Shelley · #37, 53y

Alina and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Alina without appearing here.

Alina moved ahead of

Cameron
In 2008 they stood at #464 and #464 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2009 that had become #314 and #893.
Carmel
In 2008 they stood at #842 and #624 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2009 that had become #314 and #893.
Tracy
In 2008 they stood at #842 and #549 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2009 that had become #314 and #893.
Bernadette
In 2007 they stood at #842 and #505 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2008 that had become #383 and #862.

Moved ahead of Alina

Maja
In 2005 they stood at #362 and #655 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2006 that had become #464 and #220.
Heidi
In 2004 they stood at #362 and #490 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2005 that had become #461 and #263.
Maia
In 1997 they stood at #429 and #456 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #514 and #349.
Hanna
In 1999 they stood at #439 and #528 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2000 that had become #536 and #378.

Moved the opposite way to Alina

Åse
Between 1958 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Alina went from #400 to #146 while Åse went from #38 to #93.
Aud
Between 1958 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Alina went from #400 to #146 while Aud went from #24 to #427.
Bjørg
Between 1958 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Alina went from #400 to #146 while Bjørg went from #21 to #369.
Else
Between 1958 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Alina went from #400 to #146 while Else went from #57 to #191.

Moved the same way as Alina

Andrea
Between 1958 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Alina went from #400 to #146 and Andrea from #329 to #98.
Anna
Between 1958 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Alina went from #400 to #146 and Anna from #71 to #23.
Elise
Between 1958 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Alina went from #400 to #146 and Elise from #247 to #63.
Ella
Between 1958 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Alina went from #400 to #146 and Ella from #248 to #4.

Meaning & Origin

A short form derived from longer names ending in '-alina', such as Adelina and Albina.

VerifiedSource: Behind the Name.Confidence: medium.

Used across Romanian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Slovene, German, Italian and Spanish traditions

VerifiedSource: Behind the Name.Confidence: medium.

Other names with a researched meaning and origin →

Where Alina is officially recorded

5 official registrars have recorded Alina, between 1958 and 2025, in 63 of those 68 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Norway	1958–2025	63	#37 in 2015
England and Wales	1996–2025	30	#224 in 2025
Republic of Ireland	1999–2025	26	#314 in 2009
Northern Ireland	2018–2019	2	#298 in 2019
Scotland	2024	1	#315 in 2024

Its high point came 16 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (2009) than in England and Wales (2025).

Variants

No spelling variants or nicknames recorded yet.

Similar Names

No similar names recorded yet for this name.

Similarity is a demonstration score — see methodology.

Spelling

Spelling simplicity

Calculated directly from the name's spelling — see Name Characteristics above.

No commonly used alternate spellings recorded.

Pronunciation

ah-LEE-nah/a.ˈli.na/

Syllables: 3
Ease: easy

VerifiedSource: Behind the Name.Confidence: medium.

Where Alina Is Recorded

National statistical agencies have recorded Alina in these places. This shows where the name is used — not where it comes from, and not that it carries particular cultural significance there.

England and WalesNorthern IrelandScotlandRepublic of IrelandNorway

Notable Usage

No safely-sourced notable usage recorded for this name yet.

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Alina

Alina at a glance

Overview

Popularity

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Alina across 4 official records

Alina by decade in Norway · Girls

Alina appears in

What the record shows

Names published alongside Alina

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Alina and the names beside it

Alina moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Alina

Moved the opposite way to Alina

Moved the same way as Alina

Meaning & Origin

Where Alina is officially recorded

Variants

Similar Names

Spelling

Pronunciation

Where Alina Is Recorded

Notable Usage

Sibling & Surname Compatibility

Alina at a glance

Alina across 4 official records

Alina by decade in Norway · Girls

Alina appears in

What the record shows

Names published alongside Alina

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Alina and the names beside it

Alina moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Alina

Moved the opposite way to Alina

Moved the same way as Alina