Alanis
Alanis was given to 72 girls in 2025, #2,459 among girls’ names; 3,400 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,370 Americans named Alanis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alanis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alanis mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alanis is “a female given name from the Celtic languages.”
A feminine form of Alan best known for the Canadian singer Alanis Morissette whose father was named Alan.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alanis?
#2,459 among girls’ names, 2025
Alanis fell from #1,567 in 2015 to #2,459 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 78.4 to 44.8 per million.
182 babies in 2013, the peak
Alanis peaked in 2013, when 182 girls were given it, #1,289 among girls’ names. The 79 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,459 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 93 | #2,070 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 112 | #1,803 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 108 | #1,870 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 118 | #1,739 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 82 | #2,196 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 102 | #1,934 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 86 | #2,179 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 112 | #1,829 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 99 | #1,996 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 140 | #1,567 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 180 | #1,315 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 182 | #1,289 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 86 | #2,189 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,694 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 96 | #2,059 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 97 | #2,090 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 86 | #2,269 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 99 | #2,059 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 141 | #1,547 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,949 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 110 | #1,745 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 94 | #1,924 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 115 | #1,606 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 119 | #1,561 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 107 | #1,646 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 151 | #1,241 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 108 | #1,541 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 148 | #1,210 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 172 | #1,076 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 15 | #5,960 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alanis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alanis has been given almost only to girls: 7 boys in 31 years of records.
Girls and boys named Alanis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alanis, and how old are they?
3,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,400 Americans ever recorded as Alanis. The median Alanis alive today is 16 years old; half are between 9 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 3,254 people named Alanis (3,217 women and girls, 37 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,806 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 184 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,480 |
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 Alanis born?
The states with the most babies named Alanis are Florida, New York and New Jersey, with 85% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 13 | #1,116 | 2.4× |
| New York | 8 | #1,533 | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #946 | 1.2× |
| California | 5 | #3,120 | 1.0× |
Where Alanis is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alanis is most over-represented in Florida: since 1995 it was given 2.4 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 Alanis 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,876 babies since 1880, Alanis is the most given (70% of them). In 2025 it was given to 79 of their 230 babies (34%), again the most given.
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 Alanis
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 Alanis and names like it
- Compare Alanis and AlanysBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAlanis peaked in 2013.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alanis since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Alanis.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alanis alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.