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How popular is the name Alena?
Births per year, rank history and how many Alenas are alive today.
Alena (female) is a rare spelling of the girls' name Alaina in England and Wales, ranked 1271st in 2025 and given to 25 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2016, when 34 babies were given the name, the 1031st most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2006, with 31 babies given the name that year. Common short forms of Alena include Lena. Alena is also a common short form of Magdalena, so many people called Alena are registered under the longer name.
Across all spellings of the name, the Alaina you are most likely to meet is around 4 years old. Half of all Alainas born in England and Wales are between 5 and 20, and there are at least 1,600 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Alaina - on average, only one in every 197 such rooms contains a Alaina.
How many babies are named Alena each year?
Includes all spellings: Alena, Alaina. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Alena spelling rank?
Where does the Alaina spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Alena most popular?
The most popular form of the name, Alaina, peaked in 2022, when 97 babies in England and Wales were given the name. The Alena spelling itself peaked in 2016, with 34 babies.
How many people are called Alena?
At least 1,600 people named Alena in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Alena?
Most living Alenas are between 5 and 20; the most common age is about 4.
Is Alena becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.