Alana
Alana was given to 2,085 girls in 2025, #140 among girls’ names; 68,295 Americans have been recorded with it since 1930 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 66,300 Americans named Alana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 11 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alana mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alana is “a female given name from the Celtic languages.”
Feminine form of Alan (from Alan + -a). In regular use since the 20th century.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alana?
#140 among girls’ names, 2025
Alana rose from #202 in 2015 to #140 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.91 to 1.3 per 1,000.
2,461 babies in 2007, the peak
Alana peaked in 2007, when 2,461 girls were given it, #143 among girls’ names. The 2,085 births of 2025 are 85% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,085 | #140 | 1.3 |
| 2024 | 2,060 | #143 | 1.3 |
| 2023 | 1,618 | #185 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 1,422 | #204 | 0.87 |
| 2021 | 1,334 | #224 | 0.81 |
| 2020 | 1,403 | #206 | 0.87 |
| 2019 | 1,341 | #232 | 0.80 |
| 2018 | 1,533 | #200 | 0.90 |
| 2017 | 1,449 | #212 | 0.84 |
| 2016 | 1,576 | #207 | 0.89 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,629 | #202 | 0.91 |
| 2014 | 1,675 | #197 | 0.94 |
| 2013 | 1,759 | #181 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 1,780 | #176 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 1,702 | #185 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 1,819 | #170 | 1.0 |
| 2009 | 1,905 | #172 | 1.0 |
| 2008 | 2,037 | #166 | 1.1 |
| 2007 | 2,461 | #143 | 1.3 |
| 2006 | 2,121 | #167 | 1.1 |
| 2005 | 1,974 | #170 | 1.1 |
| 2004 | 1,913 | #178 | 1.0 |
| 2003 | 1,621 | #203 | 0.89 |
| 2002 | 1,391 | #225 | 0.77 |
| 2001 | 1,233 | #257 | 0.68 |
| 2000 | 1,279 | #253 | 0.70 |
| 1999 | 1,246 | #252 | 0.70 |
| 1998 | 1,218 | #254 | 0.69 |
| 1997 | 1,038 | #281 | 0.60 |
| 1996 | 1,155 | #245 | 0.66 |
| 1995 | 900 | #308 | 0.51 |
| 1994 | 798 | #335 | 0.45 |
| 1993 | 773 | #338 | 0.43 |
| 1992 | 671 | #385 | 0.36 |
| 1991 | 701 | #367 | 0.37 |
| 1990 | 720 | #369 | 0.38 |
| 1989 | 666 | #379 | 0.36 |
| 1988 | 652 | #370 | 0.37 |
| 1987 | 623 | #376 | 0.36 |
| 1986 | 728 | #333 | 0.42 |
| 1985 | 977 | #255 | 0.57 |
| 1984 | 655 | #352 | 0.39 |
| 1983 | 633 | #359 | 0.38 |
| 1982 | 707 | #340 | 0.42 |
| 1981 | 639 | #367 | 0.38 |
| 1980 | 636 | #368 | 0.38 |
| 1979 | 606 | #373 | 0.38 |
| 1978 | 441 | #451 | 0.29 |
| 1977 | 365 | #507 | 0.24 |
| 1976 | 370 | #490 | 0.25 |
| 1975 | 442 | #446 | 0.30 |
| 1974 | 337 | #511 | 0.23 |
| 1973 | 278 | #576 | 0.19 |
| 1972 | 227 | #661 | 0.15 |
| 1971 | 203 | #738 | 0.12 |
| 1970 | 250 | #651 | 0.14 |
| 1969 | 211 | #685 | 0.13 |
| 1968 | 211 | #664 | 0.13 |
| 1967 | 220 | #643 | 0.13 |
| 1966 | 200 | #691 | 0.12 |
| 1965 | 191 | #717 | 0.11 |
| 1964 | 215 | #707 | 0.11 |
| 1963 | 199 | #725 | 0.10 |
| 1962 | 156 | #842 | 0.08 |
| 1961 | 159 | #835 | 0.08 |
| 1960 | 127 | #945 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 100 | #1,065 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 103 | #1,027 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 116 | #957 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 132 | #868 | 0.07 |
| 1955 | 119 | #898 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 139 | #795 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 160 | #717 | 0.09 |
| 1952 | 172 | #677 | 0.09 |
| 1951 | 189 | #629 | 0.10 |
| 1950 | 183 | #624 | 0.11 |
| 1949 | 198 | #590 | 0.12 |
| 1948 | 221 | #556 | 0.13 |
| 1947 | 219 | #577 | 0.12 |
| 1946 | 194 | #573 | 0.12 |
| 1945 | 134 | #628 | 0.10 |
| 1944 | 104 | #747 | 0.08 |
| 1943 | 42 | #1,250 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,117 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,029 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,357 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,252 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,259 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,289 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,408 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,416 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,336 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,552 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alana has been given almost only to girls: 31 boys in 93 years of records.
Girls and boys named Alana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alana, and how old are they?
66,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 68,295 Americans ever recorded as Alana. The median Alana alive today is 20 years old; half are between 11 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 54,144 people named Alana (54,057 women and girls, 87 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 57,327 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 179 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,370 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,860 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 26,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 20,800 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Alana born?
The states with the most babies named Alana are Texas, Florida and California, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 311 | #82 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 299 | #43 | 1.4× |
| California | 294 | #99 | 1.0× |
| New York | 125 | #123 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 85 | #104 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 75 | #132 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 65 | #114 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 60 | #171 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 50 | #223 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 42 | #264 | 0.9× |
Where Alana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alana is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1930 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 276,476 babies since 1880, Alana is the most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,085 of their 9,972 babies (21%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alana
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alana and names like it
- Compare Alana and AlainaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAlana peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alana since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Alana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.