Alana — #143 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Alana

The Social Security Administration has registered 66,156 babies named Alana between 1930 and 2024, spanning 95 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Alana currently holds the #143 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 2,461 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alana performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 17,934 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Alana shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 8,567 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Alana in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alana in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 66,156 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.