Alanna
#280 for girls in 2025, 1,099 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #6,229
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 1,099 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 27,012since 1930
Alanna over time
Rank among girls' names. Alanna has never cracked the top 200 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #280 | 1,099 | — | |
| 2024 | #290 | 1,098 | — | |
| 2023 | #457 | 677 | — | |
| 2022 | #566 | 531 | — | |
| 2021 | #560 | 548 | — | |
| 2020 | #561 | 523 | — | |
| 2019 | #530 | 577 | — | |
| 2018 | #556 | 559 | — | |
| 2017 | #544 | 568 | — | |
| 2016 | #561 | 554 | — | |
| 2015 | #509 | 620 | — | |
| 2014 | #526 | 587 | — | |
| 2013 | #501 | 599 | — | |
| 2012 | #489 | 626 | — | |
| 2011 | #506 | 580 | — | |
| 2010 | #520 | 573 | — | |
| 2009 | #475 | 654 | — | |
| 2008 | #463 | 683 | — | |
| 2007 | #466 | 691 | — | |
| 2006 | #475 | 667 | — | |
| 2005 | #493 | 619 | — | |
| 2004 | #471 | 625 | — | |
| 2003 | #492 | 587 | — | |
| 2002 | #492 | 565 | — | |
| 2001 | #506 | 543 | — | |
| 2000 | #498 | 541 | — | |
| 1999 | #478 | 544 | — | |
| 1998 | #507 | 497 | — | |
| 1997 | #496 | 499 | — | |
| 1996 | #461 | 543 | — | |
| 1995 | #508 | 481 | — | |
| 1994 | #502 | 491 | — | |
| 1993 | #497 | 499 | — | |
| 1992 | #503 | 480 | — | |
| 1991 | #500 | 476 | — | |
| 1990 | #473 | 520 | — | |
| 1989 | #604 | 355 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #598 | 334 | — | |
| 1987 | #659 | 286 | — | |
| 1986 | #639 | 289 | — | |
| 1985 | #630 | 297 | — | |
| 1984 | #639 | 275 | — | |
| 1983 | #692 | 245 | — | |
| 1982 | #621 | 289 | — | |
| 1981 | #612 | 295 | — | |
| 1980 | #685 | 252 | — | |
| 1979 | #752 | 215 | — | |
| 1978 | #818 | 183 | — | |
| 1977 | #842 | 177 | — | |
| 1976 | #924 | 140 | — | |
| 1975 | #878 | 151 | — | |
| 1974 | #929 | 134 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,001 | 118 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,084 | 105 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,010 | 123 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,133 | 103 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,176 | 90 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,279 | 74 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,495 | 56 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,827 | 39 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,829 | 39 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,975 | 36 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,683 | 46 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,757 | 42 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,036 | 33 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,695 | 44 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,054 | 30 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,073 | 29 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,928 | 32 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,681 | 40 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,907 | 31 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,422 | 50 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,344 | 52 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,402 | 48 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,177 | 63 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,324 | 48 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,409 | 43 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,461 | 40 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,576 | 36 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,678 | 28 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,916 | 10 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,625 | 12 | — | |
| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 | — | |
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| 1939 | #3,145 | 8 | — | |
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| 1931 | #3,226 | 8 | — | |
| 1930 | #3,055 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alanna! It came in at #3,055, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1932–1938, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Alanna is popular in 1972
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Massachusetts#565 · 1 in 6,845
- Michigan#756 · 1 in 8,842
- New York#844 · 1 in 9,237
- Illinois#912 · 1 in 10,657
- Ohio#991 · 1 in 14,890
Best ever in a state: #102 in Delaware, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #565 | 5 | 1 in 6,845 |
| Michigan | #756 | 7 | 1 in 8,842 |
| New York | #844 | 12 | 1 in 9,237 |
| Illinois | #912 | 7 | 1 in 10,657 |
| Ohio | #991 | 5 | 1 in 14,890 |
| California | #1,349 | 8 | 1 in 17,134 |
| Texas | #1,424 | 5 | 1 in 19,274 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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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 Alanna
- 10 spots since 2024 (#290 → #280)
- 281 spots since 2020 (#561 → #280)
- 229 spots since 2015 (#509 → #280)
- Biggest jump: 167 spots in 2024 (#457 → #290)
- Biggest drop: 71 spots in 1983 (#621 → #692)
- Debuted 1930
- Peaked 2025 at #280 (1,099 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 52 yrs · run 1974–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,462 girls born in 2025 were named Alanna (0.07%)
- 22.9% of all girls named Alanna (6,175) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 25 | #3,055 (1930) | #3,142 |
| 1940s | 175 | #1,409 (1949) | #2,266 |
| 1950s | 423 | #1,177 (1951) | #1,631 |
| 1960s | 499 | #1,176 (1969) | #1,675 |
| 1970s | 1,449 | #752 (1979) | #937 |
| 1980s | 2,917 | #598 (1988) | #638 |
| 1990s | 5,030 | #461 (1996) | #493 |
| 2000s | 6,175 | #463 (2008) | #483 |
| 2010s | 5,843 | #489 (2012) | #524 |
| 2020s | 4,476 | #280 (2025) | #452 |
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.
Alanna in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 14,488 of them was named Alanna, which outranked 88.8% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,079Loriann106
- #1,079Sunny106
- #1,079Zandra106
- #1,084Alanna105
- #1,084Dolly105
- #1,084Edwina105
- #1,084Inez105
- #1,090Delilah104
- #1,090Evangeline104
- #1,090Kira104
Tied with 5 names at #1,084; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.