Alanis
#2,458 for girls in 2025, 72 births · #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 172 births
- Debut · girls
- 15 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,393since 1995
Alanis over time
Rank among girls' names. Alanis has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,458 | 72 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | #2,067 | 93 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,802 | 112 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,870 | 108 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,739 | 118 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,196 | 82 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,933 | 102 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,179 | 86 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,828 | 112 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,996 | 99 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,566 | 140 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,314 | 180 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,289 | 182 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,189 | 86 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,695 | 65 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,059 | 96 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,090 | 97 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,267 | 86 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,059 | 99 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,546 | 141 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,950 | 98 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,746 | 110 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,925 | 94 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,606 | 115 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,560 | 119 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,649 | 107 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,243 | 151 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,543 | 108 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,212 | 148 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,078 | 172 | — | |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alanis! It came in at #5,958, and was given to 15 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1995, when fewer than 16 girls a year got the name.
Where Alanis is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Florida#677 · 1 in 3,545
- Arizona#848 · 1 in 4,010
- Illinois#1,432 · 1 in 8,911
- New York#1,519 · 1 in 9,719
- Georgia#1,539 · 1 in 9,075
Best ever in a state: #432 in Mississippi, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Florida | #677 | 24 | 1 in 3,545 |
| Arizona | #848 | 7 | 1 in 4,010 |
| Illinois | #1,432 | 5 | 1 in 8,911 |
| New York | #1,519 | 8 | 1 in 9,719 |
| Georgia | #1,539 | 5 | 1 in 9,075 |
| Texas | #1,768 | 13 | 1 in 12,473 |
| California | #1,793 | 12 | 1 in 13,742 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Alanis
- 391 spots since 2024 (#2,067 → #2,458)
- 262 spots since 2020 (#2,196 → #2,458)
- 892 spots since 2015 (#1,566 → #2,458)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 1996 at #1,078 (172 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,641 girls born in 2013 were named Alanis (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,323 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,078 in 1996, was only 1 in 10,192 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.8% of all girls named Alanis (1,148) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 594 | #1,078 (1996) | #2,207 |
| 2000s | 1,066 | #1,546 (2006) | #1,840 |
| 2010s | 1,148 | #1,289 (2013) | #1,905 |
| 2020s | 585 | #1,739 (2021) | #2,022 |
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.
Alanis in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 14,327 of them was named Alanis, which outranked 89.8% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,792Melania113
- #1,792Mindy113
- #1,792Rosalynn113
- #1,802Alanis112
- #1,802Alaiah112
- #1,802Alita112
- #1,802Annabel112
- #1,813Akari111
- #1,813Avril111
- #1,813Blayke111
Tied with 10 names at #1,802; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.