Alanna
Alanna was given to 1,099 girls in 2025, #280 among girls’ names; 27,019 Americans have been recorded with it since 1930 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 26,400 Americans named Alanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 10 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alanna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alanna is “a female given name from the Celtic languages.”
A feminine form of Alan; variant spelling of Alana. Compare also Alannah.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alanna?
#280 among girls’ names, 2025
Alanna rose from #509 in 2015 to #280 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.35 to 0.68 per 1,000.
1,099 babies in 2025, the peak
Alanna peaked in 2025, when 1,099 girls were given it, #280 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 1,098 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,099 | #280 | 0.68 |
| 2024 | 1,098 | #290 | 0.68 |
| 2023 | 677 | #457 | 0.42 |
| 2022 | 531 | #566 | 0.32 |
| 2021 | 548 | #560 | 0.33 |
| 2020 | 523 | #561 | 0.32 |
| 2019 | 577 | #530 | 0.34 |
| 2018 | 559 | #556 | 0.33 |
| 2017 | 568 | #544 | 0.33 |
| 2016 | 554 | #561 | 0.31 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 620 | #509 | 0.35 |
| 2014 | 587 | #527 | 0.33 |
| 2013 | 599 | #501 | 0.34 |
| 2012 | 626 | #489 | 0.36 |
| 2011 | 580 | #506 | 0.33 |
| 2010 | 573 | #520 | 0.32 |
| 2009 | 654 | #475 | 0.36 |
| 2008 | 683 | #463 | 0.36 |
| 2007 | 691 | #466 | 0.36 |
| 2006 | 667 | #475 | 0.35 |
| 2005 | 619 | #493 | 0.33 |
| 2004 | 625 | #471 | 0.34 |
| 2003 | 587 | #492 | 0.32 |
| 2002 | 565 | #492 | 0.31 |
| 2001 | 543 | #506 | 0.30 |
| 2000 | 541 | #498 | 0.30 |
| 1999 | 544 | #478 | 0.31 |
| 1998 | 497 | #507 | 0.28 |
| 1997 | 499 | #496 | 0.29 |
| 1996 | 543 | #461 | 0.31 |
| 1995 | 481 | #508 | 0.27 |
| 1994 | 491 | #502 | 0.27 |
| 1993 | 499 | #497 | 0.28 |
| 1992 | 480 | #503 | 0.26 |
| 1991 | 476 | #500 | 0.25 |
| 1990 | 520 | #472 | 0.27 |
| 1989 | 355 | #603 | 0.19 |
| 1988 | 334 | #598 | 0.19 |
| 1987 | 286 | #659 | 0.16 |
| 1986 | 289 | #639 | 0.17 |
| 1985 | 297 | #630 | 0.17 |
| 1984 | 275 | #639 | 0.16 |
| 1983 | 245 | #693 | 0.15 |
| 1982 | 289 | #621 | 0.17 |
| 1981 | 295 | #612 | 0.18 |
| 1980 | 252 | #685 | 0.15 |
| 1979 | 215 | #752 | 0.13 |
| 1978 | 183 | #818 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 177 | #842 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 140 | #924 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 151 | #879 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 134 | #929 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 118 | #1,001 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 105 | #1,084 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 123 | #1,010 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 103 | #1,133 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 90 | #1,176 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 74 | #1,279 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 56 | #1,495 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 39 | #1,828 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 39 | #1,829 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 36 | #1,974 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,682 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 42 | #1,756 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 33 | #2,035 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 44 | #1,695 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,053 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,074 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 32 | #1,927 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 40 | #1,681 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,906 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 50 | #1,422 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 52 | #1,343 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 48 | #1,402 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 63 | #1,176 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 48 | #1,323 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 43 | #1,408 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 40 | #1,460 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 36 | #1,575 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,677 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,917 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,625 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,199 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,148 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,227 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,056 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alanna has been given almost only to girls: 7 boys in 86 years of records.
Girls and boys named Alanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alanna, and how old are they?
26,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 27,019 Americans ever recorded as Alanna. The median Alanna alive today is 21 years old; half are between 10 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 20,264 people named Alanna (20,240 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 22,215 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 20 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 596 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,880 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,390 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,490 |
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 Alanna born?
The states with the most babies named Alanna are Texas, California and Florida, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 171 | #194 | 0.8× |
| California | 148 | #228 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 124 | #142 | 1.3× |
| New York | 85 | #194 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 40 | #205 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 40 | #262 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 39 | #281 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 33 | #324 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 32 | #211 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 31 | #263 | 0.9× |
Where Alanna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alanna is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1930 it was given 1.7 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 Alanna 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 274,338 babies since 1880, Alanna is the fifth most given (9.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,099 of their 10,364 babies (11%), again the fifth 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 Alanna
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 Alanna and names like it
- Compare Alanna and AlanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAlanna peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alanna since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Alanna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alanna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.