Alaena
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- uh-LAY-nuh
- Origin
- Celtic
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Alaena is a girls' name of Celtic origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Alaena mean?
Celtic: variant of Alaina, feminine of Alan
Feminine form of Alan, a Breton name brought to England by the Normans.
Is Alaena a girl's or a boy's name?
Alaena is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Alaena in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Alaena, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 1981.
Half of all the girls named Alaena in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 51 girls in the US were given Alaena or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,538, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
- Aleina 45
- Alaena 6
Alaena in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,804 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,633 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,877 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,886 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,156 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,839 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,801 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,563 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,773 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,675 |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,315 |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,108 |
Nicknames for Alaena
- Lainey 257 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Alaena
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Alora Amora Amara Alara Amira Alaina Ximena Solana Alaya Ayla Amoura Aria
Other spellings of Alaena
Names related to Alaena
More Celtic names
Arthur Imogen Gael Harvey Alan Tristan Vienna Lana Sabrina Bryce Devon Arturo Alannah Cedric Clyde Joyce
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Alaena: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alaena, updated 20 October 2026.