Alena
Alena is a girl's name that peaked in 2015, when it was the 596th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 707th. About 15,000 Alenas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Alena
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 16,014
- Estimated living today
- 15,000
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2015
- Best rank
- 596th
- Rank in 2025
- 707th
- First recorded
- 1891
How old the living Alenas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 16,014 babies given the name since 1891, about 15,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 7,300 of them are children and 280 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Alenas
- Alena Zavarzina (born 1989)Russian snowboarder
- Alena Kostornaia (born 2003)Russian figure skater
- Alena Amialiusik (born 1989)Belarusian cyclist
- Alena Leonova (born 1990)Russian figure skater
- Alena Šeredová (born 1978)Czech actress and model
- Alena Arzamasskaia (died 1670)Russian military rebel
- Alena V. Ledeneva (born 1964)British sociologist
- Alena Kartashova (born 1982)Olympic wrestler
People named Alena with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Alena is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Alena is most concentrated in Nevada (2.4×), Arizona (2.3×), Washington (2.2×), California (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2015
The most popular girls’ names the year Alena peaked:
Alena elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland girls | Alena | 1,336 | 86th |
| France girls | Alena +3 spellings | 995 | 1,260th |
| England and Wales girls | Alena | 605 | 1,031st |
| Italy girls | Alena | 594 | — |
| Belgium girls | Alena +1 spelling | 146 | 843rd |
| Poland girls | Alena | 133 birth registrations | 307th |
| Ireland girls | Alena | 30 | 651st |
| Scotland girls | Alena | 12 | 627th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Alena | 7 | 350th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Alena: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Alena | 1,247 | 0.100% | 69th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Alena | 67 | 0.015% | 308th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Alena | 19 | 0.029% | 80th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Alena | 3 | 0.081% | 15th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Alena is most concentrated in Basel-Landschaft, where 0.14% of children were given it – 76 of them.
Alena: rank by region
In 2024, Alena was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Alena | 378 | 7 |
In 2023, Alena was given 2 times or more in 3 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Alena | 318 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Alena | 250 | 2 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Alena | 176 | 2 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Alena appears in the lists for Province of Liège (167th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Alena by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 26 | 236th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Alena among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Alena | 179 | 219 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Alena lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,231 women called Alena were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Alena | 168 | 0.163 | 551 |
| Málaga | Alena | 116 | 0.127 | 617 |
| Girona | Alena | 47 | 0.114 | 724 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Alena | 56 | 0.101 | 932 |
| Tarragona | Alena | 42 | 0.096 | 849 |
| Barcelona | Alena | 247 | 0.081 | 838 |
Listed in 30 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 22 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Alena against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.