Given name & surname · also Spanish
Aldana
Aldana is a surname from Spanish, ultimately from Basque. It is used in English, Spanish, and Tagalog.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Aldana comes from Spanish, and ultimately from Basque.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2008. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aldana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 62
- 0 boys · 62 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #15,033 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 15,033 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 192 as a first name in 2020; 9,846 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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