Ali vs Alina
American parents have registered 45,387 Alinas since 1880, against 44,888 Alis. Alina is still ahead, with 2,204 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Ali Alina
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 107 years in which either name was published, Ali for 65 years and Alina for 42 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.
- 1892–1922 Alina ahead
- 1930–1945 Ali ahead
- 1946–1949 Alina ahead
- 1950–1960 Ali ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1965–1969 Alina ahead
- 1970–2006 Ali ahead
- 2007–2025 Alina ahead
9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Ali | Alina | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 44,888 | 45,387 |
| Most in one year | 1,251 | 2,204 |
| Babies in 2025 | 1,160 | 2,204 |
| Estimated living today | 44,000 | 45,000 |
| Median age today | 18 | 11 |
| Peak year | 2022 | 2025 |
| Best rank | 301st boys | 130th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 306th | 130th |
| First recorded | 1914 | 1892 |
| Girls / boys | 10,505 / 34,383 | 45,387 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Alis alive today are over 18; half the Alinas are over 11. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Ali Michigan (3.3×), New Jersey (1.6×), New York (1.5×)
- Alina Nevada (3.1×), California (2.8×), Arizona (2.4×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Ali | Alina |
|---|---|---|
| France | 31,640 | 3,200 |
| England and Wales | 11,877 | 3,816 |
| Switzerland | 1,273 | 5,872 |
| Norway | 4,198 | 1,499 |
| Belgium | 3,189 | 1,171 |
| Italy | 2,701 | 984 |
| Poland | 326 | 2,981 |
| Sweden | 3,102 | 123 |
| Ireland | 1,096 | 204 |
| Scotland | 722 | 177 |
| Northern Ireland | 69 | 8 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ali and Alina.