Aleyna
A girls’ name of English origin, meaning bright, shining; a form of Alena or Alana.
Aleyna by the numbers
In 2025, 32 babies in England and Wales were named Aleyna. In the US, 127 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.
Other names that come from Alana
Like Aleyna, each of these traces back to Alana: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
- Lanabright or fair; a form of Helen or Alana185 in England and Wales (2025)
- Alanisfair, bright; a form of Alana110 in the US (2017)
- Alonnafair; beautiful; a form of Alana73 in the US (2017)
- Alaynahfair, bright; a modern respelling of Alana14 in England and Wales (2025)
- Allanafair, beautiful; a form of Alana65 in the US (2017)
- Alannifair, beautiful; a form of Alana48 in the US (2017)
- Alahnafair, bright; a modern respelling of Alana or Alaina40 in the US (2017)
- Alaniavariant of Alania or Alana, fair or bright32 in the US (2017)
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Aleyna. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Alaynafair, bright; a form of Alana1,373 in the US (2017)
- Aleenabright, shining; a form of Helen or Alena150 in England and Wales (2025)
- Alenabright, shining; form of Helen462 in the US (2017)
- Alynabright; a form of Alina or Aline124 in the US (2017)
- Aleinabright; a form of Alina or Alaina59 in the US (2017)
- Aleydanoble natured; a form of Alida58 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Aleyna
Names that are said the same way as Aleyna, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Alainabright; a form of Alaina or Alana1,660 in the US (2017)
- Alinabright; a form of Alina or Aline1,650 in the US (2017)
- Alanafair, bright; feminine form of Alan1,432 in the US (2017)
- Alannafair; beautiful; a form of Alana563 in the US (2017)
- Alannahfair, beautiful; a form of Alanna52 in England and Wales (2025)
- Alanahfair, bright; a form of Alana153 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean light
Like Aleyna, each of these has light in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
Names about as common as Aleyna
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