Girl's name
Alina
Say it uh-LEE-nuh
Germanic origin 3 syllables
Where Alina is loved, common and rare
Common across Switzerland, Slovenia, five German cities and seven more places. Rare in Poland, Norway, the Netherlands and eight more places.
1 in 1,218 girls born in England and Wales in 2025
Switzerland 13thSlovenia 34thAustria 44th
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In 25 of the 40 official lists, among them Switzerland (13th), Slovenia (34th) and Austria (44th).
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| Place | Rank | Girls | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 13th 2025 | 184 | 1 in 185 |
| Slovenia | 34th 2025 | 52 | about 1 in 127 |
| Austria | 44th 2025 | 168 | 1 in 213 |
| Hungary | 55th 2025 | 183 | rank only |
| Berlin city | 55th 2023 | 50 | about 1 in 290 |
| Munich city | 64th 2025 | 21 | about 1 in 200 |
| Cologne city | 81st 2023 | 16 | about 1 in 384 |
| Sweden | 85th 2025 | 117 | about 1 in 343 |
| Ontario province | 87th 2024 | 114 | about 1 in 478 |
| British Columbia province | 88th 2023 | 31 | about 1 in 386 |
| Poland | 113th 2025 | 123 | 1 in 974 |
| Norway | 146th 2025 | 35 | 1 in 623 |
| The Netherlands | 188th 2025 | 80 | about 1 in 763 |
| Catalonia region | 199th 2025 | 20 | 1 in 964 |
| England and Wales | 224th 2025 | 208 | 1 in 1,218 |
| Quebec province | 238th 2025 | 25 | about 1 in 1,040 |
| Scotland | 284th 2025 | 12 | 1 in 1,491 |
| Ireland | 325th 2025 | 12 | 1 in 1,760 |
| France | 337th 2025 | 160 | 1 in 1,792 |
| Italy | 395th 2024 | 35 | 1 in 5,119 |
| Moscow city Алина | 30th 2025 | 478 | rank only |
| Bonn city | 38th 2025 | 14 | about 1 in 215 |
| Finland | 43rd 2025 | 93 | rank only |
| Leipzig city | 66th 2025 | 8 | about 1 in 328 |
| Rostock city | 166th 2025 | 1 | about 1 in 985 |
Rare, below the listed names: Northern Ireland, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, New Zealand, Spain and Israel.
Not in a short top list, so no figure: Nova Scotia (top 21), Denmark (top 50), Iceland (top 10), Estonia (top 25), Turkey (top 30), Argentina (top 20) and Croatia (top 50).
Germany publishes no national statistics on first names. German figures here are city lists (Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Bonn, Leipzig, Rostock), never the country.
Moscow publishes names in Cyrillic. The Latin spelling shown is our transliteration; the published form is shown beside it.
Sources: Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS) / Office fédéral de la statistique (OFS) (Switzerland); Statistični urad Republike Slovenije (SURS), SiStat (Slovenia); Statistik Austria (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1) (Austria); Belügyminisztérium, Nyilvántartások (kormany.hu) (Hungary); BerlinOnline GmbH; Landesamt für Bürger- und Ordnungsangelegenheiten (LABO) / Standesämter (Berlin); Landeshauptstadt München, Statistisches Amt (opendata.muenchen.de) (Munich); Stadt Köln, Standesamt (offenedaten-koeln.de) (Cologne); Skatteverket (Swedish Tax Agency) (Sweden); Ontario Office of the Registrar General (Ontario Data Catalogue) (Ontario); BC Vital Statistics Agency (BC Data Catalogue) (British Columbia); Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji, rejestr PESEL (dane.gov.pl) (Poland); Statistics Norway (SSB) (Norway); Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB) (the Netherlands); Idescat (Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya) (Catalonia); Office for National Statistics (England and Wales); Retraite Québec (Banque de prénoms, Données Québec) (Quebec); National Records of Scotland (Scotland); Central Statistics Office (CSO) (Ireland); INSEE, Fichier des prénoms (édition 2025) (France); ISTAT, Contanomi (Italy); Moscow Civil Registry Office (ZAGS), data.mos.ru (Moscow); Bundesstadt Bonn, Standesamt (opendata.bonn.de) (Bonn); Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV) (Finland); Stadt Leipzig, Standesamt (opendata.leipzig.de) (Leipzig); Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock (opendata-hro.de) (Rostock). How we count, and every source
About the name
Alina came into English from Italian, or as a Latin-style form of the French Aline. Both go back to pet forms of the Germanic name Adela or Adele, which gives Alina a long European history behind its simple modern look.
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uh-LEE-nuh has three syllables, with the stress in the middle. Aline, Alena, Alyona and Elina are close relatives, and the name is spelled and said much the same way in many languages.
Alina is popular in Switzerland, where it is in the top fifteen, and in Slovenia and Finland. In the English-speaking world it does best in Ontario and British Columbia, with a smaller following in England and Wales. It is rising in nine countries, and in France it peaked in 2023.
Meaning, origin, pronunciation
- Pronounced
- uh-LEE-nuh, 3 syllables
- Origin
- Germanic
- Other spellings
- Aline
- Alya
- Alena
- Elina
- Galina
- Ala
- Alene
- Alyona
- Aliona
- Albina
- Aliana
- Aljana
- Allina
- Halina
- Olina
- Alia
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Alina, or a Latinate form of French Aline, ultimately from diminutives of the Germanic name Adela, Adele.
From the Wiktionary entry, CC BY-SA 4.0, shortened.
Over time
Over five years: rising in 9 of 22 regions, falling in 3.
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Rank in each place since 1996; higher on the chart is more popular.
Ten years of ranks
Her rank each year, English-speaking regions first. A blank means no published rank for her that year.
| Region | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales | 315 | 324 | 346 | 275 | 304 | 260 | 236 | 264 | 268 | 224 |
| Scotland | 413 | 347 | 583 | 560 | 765 | 485 | 358 | 281 | 315 | 284 |
| Northern Ireland | 434 | 298 | ||||||||
| Ireland | 419 | 471 | 411 | 621 | 628 | 517 | 420 | 555 | 556 | 325 |
| Ontario | 166 | 99 | 113 | 109 | 131 | 102 | 102 | 118 | 87 | |
| British Columbia | 155 | 184 | 113 | 184 | 154 | 117 | 78 | 88 | ||
| Victoria | 95 | |||||||||
| South Australia | 230 | 272 | ||||||||
| Quebec | 402 | 396 | 296 | 313 | 436 | 271 | 328 | 403 | 259 | 238 |
| France | 600 | 548 | 514 | 441 | 484 | 374 | 325 | 299 | 324 | 337 |
| The Netherlands | 162 | 164 | 141 | 154 | 162 | 126 | 131 | 163 | 188 | |
| Austria | 36 | 35 | 47 | 35 | 42 | 38 | 41 | 42 | 36 | 44 |
| Switzerland | 19 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 9 | 10 | 17 | 24 | 14 | 13 |
| Berlin | 79 | 59 | 58 | 68 | 39 | 51 | 51 | 55 | ||
| Munich | 56 | 45 | 45 | 82 | 52 | 71 | 61 | 55 | 63 | 64 |
| Cologne | 67 | 118 | 63 | 60 | 94 | 68 | 67 | 81 | ||
| Bonn | 66 | 52 | 85 | 50 | 45 | 42 | 87 | 115 | 84 | 38 |
| Leipzig | 55 | 85 | 79 | 54 | 70 | 58 | 61 | 130 | 54 | 66 |
| Rostock | 46 | 51 | 56 | 141 | 126 | 60 | 38 | 28 | 158 | 166 |
| Norway | 95 | 110 | 138 | 139 | 123 | 125 | 144 | 147 | 149 | 146 |
| Sweden | 124 | 115 | 111 | 109 | 119 | 106 | 92 | 80 | 79 | 85 |
| Finland | 33 | 32 | 41 | 45 | 43 | |||||
| Catalonia | 218 | 615 | 229 | 275 | 487 | 395 | 390 | 256 | 349 | 199 |
| Italy | 497 | 457 | 471 | 383 | 371 | 395 | ||||
| Poland | 113 | 117 | 113 | 118 | 114 | 111 | 99 | 105 | 105 | 113 |
| Hungary | 89 | 85 | 85 | 70 | 55 | |||||
| Slovenia | 34 | 27 | 31 | 44 | 27 | 31 | 33 | 31 | 30 | 34 |
| Moscow | 27 | 25 | 27 | 27 | 29 | 28 | 32 | 30 | ||
| Israel | 476 | 665 | 794 | 570 | 704 | 968 | 966 | 1040 |
England and Wales, 1996 to 2025
| Year | Rank | Girls | per 100,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 224 | 208 | 82.1 |
| 2024 | 268 | 179 | 69.4 |
| 2023 | 264 | 170 | 66.3 |
| 2022 | 236 | 200 | 75.9 |
| 2021 | 260 | 181 | 66.0 |
| 2020 | 304 | 153 | 57.0 |
| 2019 | 275 | 177 | 63.2 |
| 2018 | 346 | 138 | 47.9 |
| 2017 | 324 | 149 | 49.8 |
| 2016 | 315 | 157 | 51.1 |
| 2015 | 357 | 132 | 42.9 |
| 2014 | 363 | 125 | 40.8 |
| 2013 | 322 | 145 | 47.0 |
| 2012 | 395 | 118 | 36.6 |
| 2011 | 328 | 146 | 45.4 |
| 2010 | 393 | 114 | 35.5 |
| 2009 | 328 | 135 | 43.1 |
| 2008 | 336 | 133 | 42.1 |
| 2007 | 352 | 124 | 40.5 |
| 2006 | 354 | 121 | 40.4 |
| 2005 | 313 | 131 | 45.4 |
| 2004 | 307 | 132 | 46.2 |
| 2003 | 359 | 103 | 37.0 |
| 2002 | 391 | 86 | 32.2 |
| 2001 | 428 | 71 | 26.5 |
| 2000 | 446 | 68 | 24.9 |
| 1999 | 521 | 55 | 19.5 |
| 1998 | 514 | 53 | 18.3 |
| 1997 | 429 | 70 | 23.9 |
| 1996 | 582 | 42 | 14.2 |
Sources: Office for National Statistics (1996-2025), OGL v3.
France since 1925
Half of the babies named Alina in France since 1925 were born in or after 2014. First recorded in 1925. Her peak year there: 2023, at 63.0 per 100,000 girls.
Babies named Alina per 100,000 girls born in France, by five-year period. Her 2023 peak is averaged into its five-year period, so the line sits below it.
Sources: INSEE, Fichier des prénoms (édition 2025) (1900-2025), Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Sister names for Alina
1 in 3,166 in England and Wales
Rose and fell with Alina. Same first letter as Alina.
1 in 587 in Ireland
Rose and fell with Alina. Same first letter as Alina.
1 in 307 in England and Wales
Rose and fell with Alina.
Similar forms, not dealt separately: Mariam.
1 in 960 in Ireland
Rose and fell with Alina.
1 in 577 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Alina.
1 in 2,347 in Ireland
Rose and fell with Alina.
1 in 743 in England and Wales
Rose and fell with Alina.
1 in 2,556 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Alina.
1 in 1,112 in Ireland
Rose and fell with Alina.
1 in 2,113 in Ireland
Rose and fell with Alina.
Middle names for Alina
1 in 107 in Northern Ireland
Alina Charlotte
3-2 beats · initials AC
Changes the beat after Alina: 3 syllables, then 2 syllables.
1 in 86 in Ireland
Alina Sophie
3-2 beats · initials AS
Changes the beat after Alina: 3 syllables, then 2 syllables.
1 in 57 in Northern Ireland
Alina Grace
3-1 beats · initials AG
Changes the beat after Alina: 3 syllables, then 1 syllable.
1 in 71 in Scotland
Alina Olivia
3-4 beats · initials AO · Alina slides into Olivia: vowel meets vowel.
Changes the beat after Alina: 3 syllables, then 4 syllables. Alina slides into Olivia: vowel meets vowel.
1 in 102 in Ireland
Alina Mia
3-2 beats · initials AM
Changes the beat after Alina: 3 syllables, then 2 syllables.
1 in 132 in Northern Ireland
Alina Ruby
3-2 beats · initials AR
Changes the beat after Alina: 3 syllables, then 2 syllables.
1 in 214 in Northern Ireland
Alina Rose
3-1 beats · initials AR
Changes the beat after Alina: 3 syllables, then 1 syllable.
1 in 173 in Northern Ireland
Alina Nora
3-2 beats · initials AN
Changes the beat after Alina: 3 syllables, then 2 syllables.
Same style as Alina
Names whose popularity rose and fell with hers across regions and decades.
1 in 743 in England and Wales
94% alike: moves with Alina across countries and decades.
1 in 1,760 in Ireland
93% alike: moves with Alina across countries and decades.
1 in 1,689 in England and Wales
93% alike: moves with Alina across countries and decades.
1 in 2,429 in Northern Ireland
93% alike: moves with Alina across countries and decades.
1 in 1,064 in England and Wales
93% alike: moves with Alina across countries and decades.
1 in 3,578 in Scotland
92% alike: moves with Alina across countries and decades.
1 in 2,347 in Ireland
92% alike: moves with Alina across countries and decades.
1 in 1,041 in Northern Ireland
92% alike: moves with Alina across countries and decades.
Famous people named Alina
Alina Zagitova, Alina Kabaeva, Alina Talay, Alina Dumitru, Alina Orlova, Alina Janowska, Alina Pash and Alina Szapocznikow.
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Russian figure skater born 2002
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Russian gymnast and politician, alleged partner of Vladimir Putin born 1983
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Belarusian hurdler born 1989
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Romanian judoka born 1982
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Lithuanian singer born 1988
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Polish actress (1923-2017)
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Ukrainian singer born 1993
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Polish sculptor (1926-1973)
People: Wikidata (CC0), linked to Wikipedia in this page's language when an article exists.
Questions about Alina
4 questions, on how popular she is, how to say it, whether she is rising and sister names.
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How popular is Alina?
Her best rank is No. 13 in Switzerland in 2025, about 1 in 185 girls. She is in the published lists of 25 of our 40 regions.
How do you pronounce Alina?
uh-LEE-nuh, with 3 syllables.
Is Alina getting more popular?
Over five years: rising in 9 of 22 regions, falling in 3.
Which sister names go with Alina?
The deck's top five sisters for Alina: Amalia, Amira, Maryam, Lia and Naomi. Each is scored on style, era, popularity and origin, with sound clashes flagged.