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Alainna

Gender
Girl
Say it
a-LAY-na
Origin
Celtic
US rank, 2025
#7,489 for girls

Alainna is a girls' name of Celtic origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).

What does Alainna 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 Alainna a girl's or a boy's name?

Alainna is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Alainna in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,489among girls
Babies in 2025
14about 1 in 110,000 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, 14 girls in the US were named Alainna, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2000, with 35 girls. It first appears in the records in 1976.

Half of all the girls named Alainna in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,992 girls in the US were given Alainna or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #108, up from #7,489 for this spelling alone.

1976Busiest: 35 in 20002025
Alainna in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202514#7,489
202410#9,551
202316#6,917
202211#9,050
202117#6,686
202016#6,919
20198#11,350
201815#7,405
201723#5,515
201626#5,129
201519#6,450
201420#6,205
201327#5,011
201222#5,892
201125#5,356
201023#5,769
200929#4,930
200820#6,556
200724#5,706
200618#6,838
200521#5,795
200429#4,597
200329#4,413
200226#4,617
200115#6,951
200035#3,659
199917#5,890
199817#5,794
199711#7,737
199614#6,387
199517#5,434
199413#6,666
199315#5,949
199218#5,260
19916#11,501
199010#7,874
198913#6,154
19886#10,381
19878#7,982
198610#6,609
19858#7,560
19845#10,417
198310#6,210
19825#10,514
19810–
19809#6,788
197910#6,188
19780–
19770–
19766#8,154

Names like Alainna

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Alainna

Names related to Alainna

More Celtic names

Every Celtic name

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, “Alainna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alainna, updated 20 October 2026.