Alaina

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Alaina: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Alaina: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #336 in 2019, and it stood at #608 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#336highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2096
1997	#2152
1998	#2165
1999	#1473
2000	#1688
2001	#1520
2002	#1658
2003	#1383
2004	#1836
2005	#1082
2006	#1052
2007	#963
2008	#1718
2009	#1526
2010	#1257
2011	#1043
2012	#801
2013	#900
2014	#1016
2015	#1057
2016	#955
2017	#949
2018	#826
2019	#838
2020	#792
2021	#654
2022	#559
2023	#622
2024	#620

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 England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #407 among girls in Northern Ireland, #441 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #620 among girls in England and Wales, #790 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2096 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2019–2024
Highest recorded position: #336 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2019 (recorded 2019–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #608 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Alaina appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 884 births with the name.

Alaina across 3 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.

Alaina'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
England and Wales · Girls	#2096 (1996)	#559 (2022)	#620 (2024)	29 of 29	884 (1996–2024)	70 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#677 (2004)	#441 (2024)	#608 (2025)	12 of 22	47 (2004–2025)	8 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#336 (2019)	#336 (2019)	#407 (2024)	4 of 6	13 (2019–2024)	4 (2019)

Alaina by decade in England and Wales · 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 Alaina in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	33	4 of 10	8
2000s	172	10 of 10	17
2010s	381	10 of 10	38
2020sbusiest	298	5 of 10	60

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 60 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Alaina appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #336 in Northern Ireland in 2019.

Alaina's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#620	63	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#622	60	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#559	70	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#654	59	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#792	46	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#838	44	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#826	45	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#949	39	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#955	38	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1057	33	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1016	35	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#900	41	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#801	48	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1043	33	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1257	25	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1526	18	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1718	15	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#963	31	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1052	26	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1082	23	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1836	11	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1383	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1658	11	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1520	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1688	10	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1473	12	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2165	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2152	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2096	7	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#407	3	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#418	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#336	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#608	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#441	8	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#758	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #336, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 70 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 28 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.

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.

Alaia · #262, 20y
Alain · #249, 15y
Alaiya · #811, 12y
Alaiyah · #1685, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Elaina · #337, 33y
Kiana · #337, 29y
Sama · #337, 28y
Alby · #334, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Susie · #336, 30y
Yaqub · #336, 28y
Abd · #337, 28y
Camron · #335, 28y

Alaina was ranked #336 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2019. 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.

Alaina 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 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Alaina without appearing here.

Alaina moved ahead of

Therese Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2165 and #2165 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #1473 and #3900.
Pauline Compare
In 2008 they stood at #1718 and #1718 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1526 and #3936.
Jeanette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2096 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #2152 and #3824.
Geraldine Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1836 and #1836 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1082 and #2438.

Moved ahead of Alaina

Ida Compare
In 2007 they stood at #963 and #987 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1718 and #937.
Aria Compare
In 2007 they stood at #963 and #1234 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1718 and #1135.
Audrey Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2096 and #2683 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #2152 and #1666.
Beau Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1688 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1520 and #1107.

Moved the opposite way to Alaina

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaina went from #2096 to #620 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaina went from #2096 to #620 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaina went from #2096 to #620 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaina went from #2096 to #620 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Alaina

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaina went from #2096 to #620 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaina went from #2096 to #620 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaina went from #2096 to #620 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaina went from #2096 to #620 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #336 in Northern Ireland in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Alaina

Alaina at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Alaina across 3 official records

Alaina by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Alaina appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Alaina at a glance

Alaina across 3 official records

Alaina by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Alaina

Alaina and the names beside it

Alaina moved ahead of

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