Alina
Top 1000
About Alina
Alina has been drifting up the US popularity charts since the early 1980s, and now sits in in the Top 200. But Alina's real strength is in its international flexibility: The name ranks highly in a wide range of European, English speaking, and Latin American countries.
This is largely due to the fact that Alina has multiple different origins. It can be a global variation of classic Helen, a feminine form of the Scottish Alistair, an Arabic name with a soft meaning, a Germanic diminutive of Adelina, or a bright feeling name in Russia, Romania, and Poland.
Popular in countries such as Germany, Switzerland, Azerbaijan, and Bosnia to name a few, Alina manages to be one of those names that, in the US at least, you seem to hear everywhere and at the same time never hear at all.
The name could work as a long form for a daughter you want to call Lina, or Allie, and as an honor name for an Alexander, an Alice, or a Helena.
Pronounced uh-LEE-nuh.
As of October 2026, Alina ranked #130 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #204.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #193 | 1,714 | 959.5 |
| 2015 | #173 | 1,857 | 1,040.3 |
| 2016 | #178 | 1,824 | 1,029.3 |
| 2017 | #186 | 1,659 | 960.9 |
| 2018 | #158 | 1,798 | 1,057 |
| 2019 | #156 | 1,833 | 1,092.1 |
| 2020 | #170 | 1,697 | 1,049.8 |
| 2021 | #135 | 2,026 | 1,234.7 |
| 2022 | #132 | 2,122 | 1,293.8 |
| 2023 | #150 | 1,898 | 1,182.9 |
| 2024 | #135 | 2,180 | 1,345.5 |
| 2025 | #130 | 2,204 | 1,371.3 |
World rankings
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Alina on lists
Famous Alinas
- Alina Somova
Russian ballerina
- Alina Kabaeva
Russian Olympic rhythmic gymnast
- Alina Jidkova
Russian tennis player
- Alina Dronova
Ukrainian ballerina
- Alina Dumitru
Romanian Olympic judoka
- Alina Baikova
Ukrainian model
- Alina Cojocaru
Romanian ballerina
- Alina Rinatovna Ibragimova
Russian,British violinist
- Alina Szapocznikow
Polish sculptor
- Alina Bronsky
German novelist
- Alina Harnasko
Belarussian Rhythmic Gymnast
- Alina Adilkhanova
Kazakh rhythmic gymnast
- Alina Fernández
daughter of late Cuban President Fidel Castro
- Alina Ilnazovna Zagitova
Russian figure skater
- Alina Eremia
Romanian singer
- Alina Leyva (b. 2003)
daughter of actress Selenis Leyva
- Alina Chiara Foley (b. 2003)
daughter of actor Dave Foley
- Alina Chamzina
Czech rhythmic gymnast
- Alina Baklagina
Latvian rhythmic gymnast
- Alina Puscau (b. 1981) Romanian model
actress and singer
Alina in pop culture
- Alina
main character in Barbara Cartland's novel "The Dangerous Dandy"
- Alina Starkov
main character of the "Grisha" trilogy
- Alina/"Teri
" main character in the film "The Equalizer"
- Alina
one of the main characters in Ken Follet's "Pillars of the Earth"