Alana

#140 for girls in 2025, 2,085 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #8,927
Given to girls >99.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
2025 · 2,085 births
Debut · girls
12 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
68,264
since 1930

Alana over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Alana has never cracked the top 100 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201941girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1402,085—
2024#1432,060—
2023#1851,618—
2022#2041,422—
2021#2241,334—
2020#2061,403—
2019#2321,341—
2018#2001,533—
2017#2121,449—
2016#2071,576—
2015#2021,629—
2014#1971,675—
2013#1811,759—
2012#1761,780—
2011#1851,702—
2010#1701,819—
2009#1721,905—
2008#1662,037—
2007#1432,461—
2006#1672,121—
2005#1701,974—
2004#1781,913#8,9277
2003#2031,621#10,8945
2002#2251,391—
2001#2571,233—
2000#2531,279—
1999#2521,246—
1998#2541,218—
1997#2811,038—
1996#2451,155—
1995#308900—
1994#335798—
1993#338773—
1992#385671—
1991#367701—
1990#369720—
1989#379666#6,9416
1988#370652—
1987#376623—
1986#333728—
1985#255977#4,6988
1984#352655—
1983#359633—
1982#340707—
1981#367639—
1980#368636#6,2505
1979#373606—
1978#451441—
1977#507365—
1976#490370—
1975#446442—
1974#511337—
1973#576278—
1972#661227—
1971#738203—
1970#651250—
1969#685211—
1968#664211—
1967#643220—
1966#691200—
1965#717191—
1964#707215—
1963#725199—
1962#842156—
1961#835159—
1960#946127—
1959#1,066100—
1958#1,028103—
1957#958116—
1956#869132—
1955#899119—
1954#796139—
1953#718160—
1952#678172—
1951#630189—
1950#625183—
1949#591198—
1948#557221—
1947#577219—
1946#573194—
1945#628134—
1944#747104—
1943#1,25142—
1942#2,11717—
1941#3,0309—
1940#4,3495—
1939#4,2505—
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1937#4,2555—
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1934#4,2865—
1933#3,4067—
1932#4,4115—
1931#4,3315—
1930#2,55212—
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First appearance
1930

The first year at least five girls were named Alana! It came in at #2,552, and was given to 12 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1934–1940, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Alana is popular in 1941

No state had 5 or more girls named Alana in 1941, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

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Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 3 spots since 2024 (#143 → #140)
  • 66 spots since 2020 (#206 → #140)
  • 62 spots since 2015 (#202 → #140)
  • Biggest jump: 504 spots in 1944 (#1,251 → #747)
  • Biggest drop: 103 spots in 1955 (#796 → #899)
Rise & fade · girls
95 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1930
  • Peaked 2025 at #140 (2,085 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 80 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 80 yrs · run 1960–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 771
  • Highest: 1 in 771 girls born in 2025 were named Alana (0.13%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 26.3% of all girls named Alana (17,935) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s44#2,552 (1930)#3,927
1940s1,143#557 (1948)#1,442
1950s1,413#625 (1950)#827
1960s1,889#643 (1967)#746
1970s3,519#373 (1979)#540
1980s6,916#255 (1985)#350
1990s9,220#245 (1996)#313
2000s17,935#143 (2007)#193
2010s16,263#170 (2010)#196
2020s9,922#140 (2025)#184

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Alana in 1941

girls
#3,030
9 births · 1 in 134,235 girls

Top girls' names in 1941

  1. #1Mary58,048
  2. #2Barbara39,543
  3. #3Patricia36,905
  4. #4Carol24,187
  5. #5Linda23,721
  6. #6Judith23,320
  7. #7Betty20,905
  8. #8Nancy20,885
  9. #9Sandra19,500
  10. #10Shirley16,954
  11. #3,030Alana9
More about 1941

girls

1,208,119 girls got a published name in 1941; 1 in 134,235 of them was named Alana, which outranked 40.4% of the 5,085 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alana
  1. #2,846Zana10
  2. #2,846Zeta10
  3. #2,846Zoila10
  4. #3,030Alana9
  5. #3,030Afton9
  6. #3,030Alinda9
  7. #3,030Almetta9
  8. #3,252Adina8
  9. #3,252Aldine8
  10. #3,252Alecia8

Tied with 221 names at #3,030; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1940
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,130Jerilyn#2,737 → #607
  2. ↑ 1,258Trina#2,109 → #851
  3. ↑ 372Karan#1,347 → #975
  4. ↑ 371Kristine#1,313 → #942
  5. ↑ 356Sherri#1,186 → #830
Fallers
  1. ↓ 447Kenneth#971 → #1,418
  2. ↓ 421Janna#997 → #1,418
  3. ↓ 366Beatriz#989 → #1,355
  4. ↓ 338Merna#997 → #1,335
  5. ↓ 337Eldora#957 → #1,294

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1941 →