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The first name 
Alina

Alina is a female first name.

Alina – known and loved in the US!

The name Alina isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Alina ranks 167. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 11 were named Alina. In the entire USA, approximately 36,519 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Alina. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Alina

What does the name 
Alina mean?

The name Alina is Greek and a short form of the Germanic name Adeline. It is derived from the word ‘adal’ meaning ‘noble’.

Did you know... that Alina is particularly common in Central and Eastern Europe?

Alina has 5 letters 
and begins with an A

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.

With five letters, the name Alina is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.

Other names with 
A, l, i, n and a

If you take all the letters in the name Alina – A, l, i, n and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Alian or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Alina

If your name is Alina and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Alina

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Alina, you can simply say:

Apple

Lion

Igloo

Nut

Apple

This is how the name Alina is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Alina in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Alina

Alina

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Alina

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Alina is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

A
L
I
N
A

Have you ever waved the name Alina

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

A
L
I
N
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Alina sounds like this: