Alina: name meaning, origin & popularity
- Meaning
- “bright, beautiful”
- Origin
- Slavic
- Say it
- uh-LEE-nuh · 3 syllables
- Used for
- Girls
Used across Europe; often treated as a Slavic form of Aline or Adelina, with multiple overlapping origins. Its etymology is not single-source, but bright or beautiful is a common accepted sense.
How popular is Alina?
Babies named Alina in 20242,180
2024 rank#135 girls
Peak year2024
Total US babies since 188043,173
Alina is rising: use over the last five years is 1.6× what it was a decade earlier.
Names like Alina
Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.
Alina questions
What does the name Alina mean?
Alina means "bright, beautiful". It comes from Slavic. Used across Europe; often treated as a Slavic form of Aline or Adelina, with multiple overlapping origins. Its etymology is not single-source, but bright or beautiful is a common accepted sense.
Is Alina a boy or girl name?
Alina is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).
How popular is Alina?
2,180 US babies were named Alina in 2024. Its peak year was 2024.
How do you pronounce Alina?
Alina is usually pronounced uh-LEE-nuh.
Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.