Alainah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-LAY-na
- Origin
- Celtic
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Alainah is a girls' name of Celtic origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Alainah mean?
Celtic: spelling of Alaina; feminine form of Alan
A feminine form of Alan, a Breton name brought to Britain after the Norman Conquest.
Meaning borrowed from Alaina. More on Wiktionary.
Is Alainah a girl's or a boy's name?
Alainah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Alainah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 36% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Alainah, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,846th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 39 girls. It first appears in the records in 1991.
2025 had fewer girls named Alainah than any year since 2004.
Half of all the girls named Alainah in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,992 girls in the US were given Alainah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #108, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Alainah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,846 |
| 2019 | 20 | #5,982 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,142 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,527 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,283 |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,914 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,001 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,753 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,294 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,842 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,493 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,804 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,525 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,904 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,261 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,476 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,139 |
Names like Alainah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Hadassah, Zaniyah, Aziyah, Kaliyah, Zaliyah, Naziyah, Jaliyah, Nusaybah, Kamiyah, Amira, Safa
Other spellings of Alainah
Alaina, Alayna, Alena, Aleyna, Alaynna, Alaynah, Alenna, Alainna, Aleynah, Aleighna, Alenah
Names related to Alainah
More Celtic names
Arthur, Imogen, Gael, Harvey, Alan, Tristan, Vienna, Lana, Sabrina, Bryce, Devon, Arturo, Cedric, Clyde, Joyce, Mael
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, “Alainah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alainah, updated 20 October 2026.