Aldana
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Meaning
a feminine given name used in Argentina, also a Basque surname with several proposed explanations; the connection between these uses is uncertain
The story
Aldana is established as a girl’s name in Argentina and also has a history as a Basque surname. The connection between those uses is plausible, but the path from family name to given name is not securely established. Even the surname has competing explanations. One links it to a Basque place name associated with a slope; another points to a village name or a word meaning "side". None provides a certain literal meaning for the Argentine given name.
Argentina’s published records for people born in 2012–2024 contain 9,396 entries for Aldana. Each given name is counted separately, including when Aldana comes after another first name.
Argentine football defender Aldana Cometti played for her country at the Women’s World Cup in France when the national team returned after twelve years away. Before that, she had won the Copa Libertadores with Huila of Colombia. Their final against Brazil’s Santos was decided on penalties after a draw, giving Colombian women’s club football its first continental title.
How popular is Aldana around the world?
In the United States, Aldana is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025. In Montevideo, 58 girls named Aldana were born in 2011, spelling variants counted together.
Aldana is on the official records of the United States, Montevideo, Argentina, Chile, Spain and Brazil.
United States
on record
In the United States, Aldana is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Aldana has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Montevideo City
1 in 4002011
In Montevideo, 58 girls named Aldana were born in 2011, spelling variants counted together.
share of that year’s births on record
Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial
Argentina
1 in 3,600
In Argentina, 182 newborns were given the name Aldana in 2024.
share of that year’s name registrations
Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024
Chile
1 in 45,000
In Chile, 4 girls were registered as Aldana in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.
share of that year’s name registrations
First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021
Spain
1 in 220,000
In Spain, 206 residents are named Aldana, ranked 4,360th among women, with a mean age of 25.7 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Brazil
At the 2022 census, 49 people in Brazil were named Aldana, ranked 67,613th, with a median age of 27.
People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
England and Wales
last on record 2022
Aldana is not on the 2025 record for England and Wales, where spellings under 3 in a year are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 4 in a year, too few to chart.
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Not on the record in Mexico City, Puerto Rico, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
The Aldana deep dive
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