Alona
Feminine · “oak tree”
Alona is the Hebrew word for an oak tree — the feminine of alon — and it belongs to the group of modern Israeli names taken straight from the landscape.
How old is the name Alona?
Alona first appears in US birth records in 1917 — 108 years ago. The typical Alona alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 3,000 people named Alona are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alona most popular?
Alona peaked in 1943, reaching #1070 nationally. Today it ranks #3517, 2,447 places below that high. See the whole 1943 chart.
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Where it comes from
From alon to Alona
The story of Alona
Trees are among the most-used sources for modern Hebrew names — Alon and Alona for the oak, Tamar for the palm, Erez for the cedar, Rotem for the desert broom. The practice belongs to the twentieth-century revival of Hebrew as a spoken language and to a deliberate turn towards the land itself. Alona is widely used in Israel and reaches American records with Israeli families; it is also used in the Philippines from an unrelated source.
Meaning
oak tree
From Hebrew alon, an oak, with the feminine ending; the oak appears throughout the Hebrew Bible as a landmark and a place of meeting, and the related elah names the terebinth.
How the name formed
- alon
- Alona
Related forms: אלונה · Alon
Pronouncing Alona
ah-LOH-nah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Hebrew stresses the last, a-lo-NAH.
Nicknames for Alona
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1917
- Most girls named
- 1985107 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1070reached in 1943
- Change vs 2023
- +10.3%43 in 2025, from 39
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Alona in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- אלונה in Hebrew — transliteration
- Alon in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Georgia, Ohio.
Alonas among us
people named Alona are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 37,378 born in 2025 was named Alona
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Alona
- #3517
- Alona on the 2025 chart
- #865
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Alona went to 43 girls in 2025, but Alonna and Alonnah are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 95, which makes it the 865th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,652 places above the chart.
- Alona43
- Alonna37
- Alonnah15
About 1 girl in 16,919 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 37,378 for Alona itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Cleopatra test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Alona's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Cleopatra climbed just as high around 1910, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Cleopatra's path sketches the road Alona is walking now.
Alona sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Alona is headed
Alona should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Alona beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Alona in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning drawn from a real and long-lived tree.
- Open vowels make it easy to say in most languages.
- Five letters and three syllables, easy enough to write.
- The stress differs between the Hebrew and American readings.
- Alana, Alona and Elona are close enough to be confused.
- Outside Hebrew-speaking families the tree meaning needs explaining.
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Frequently asked
- How many Alonas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,000 people named Alona are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Alona?
- Alona is the most-used spelling in US records — 43 of the 95 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Alonna and Alonnah.
- How popular is the name Alona in 2025?
- Alona ranks #3517 among US girl names in 2025, with 43 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Alona?
- About 1 in every 37,378 US girls born in 2025 was named Alona — 43 in all.
- Will my child share the name Alona with classmates?
- Alona will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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