Alannah

#1,673 for girls in 2025, 123 births

Peak · girls
2015 · 370 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
7,392
since 1948

Alannah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Alannah has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201948peak #763, 2015girls
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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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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#1,673123
2024#1,509143
2023#1,486146
2022#1,367170
2021#1,181206
2020#1,081228
2019#988261
2018#865313
2017#913293
2016#876320
2015#763370
2014#947284
2013#855303
2012#846315
2011#918283
2010#969263
2009#992267
2008#942288
2007#985272
2006#1,074237
2005#1,168197
2004#1,067216
2003#1,146189
2002#1,370141
2001#1,181173
2000#1,551115
1999#1,378128
1998#1,557106
1997#1,412118
1996#1,446113
1995#1,59894
1994#1,77082
1993#1,538101
1992#1,67390
1991#1,205143
1990#939202
1989#6,53112
1988#6,27712
1987#4,66017
1986#4,34718
1985#4,12619
1984#4,73715
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First appearance
1948

The first year at least five girls were named Alannah! It came in at #4,651, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1949–1983, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Alannah is popular in 1948

No state had 5 or more girls named Alannah in 1948, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Alannah
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 164 spots since 2024 (#1,509 → #1,673)
  • 592 spots since 2020 (#1,081 → #1,673)
  • 910 spots since 2015 (#763 → #1,673)
  • Biggest jump: 5,592 spots in 1990 (#6,531 → #939)
  • Biggest drop: 266 spots in 1991 (#939 → #1,205)
Rise & fade · girls
67 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1948
  • Peaked 2015 at #763 (370 births)
  • Births halved by 2022, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 14 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 2007–2019
Share of babies · girls
1 in 4,825
  • Highest: 1 in 4,825 girls born in 2015 were named Alannah (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 13,067 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 40.7% of all girls named Alannah (3,005) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s6#4,651 (1948)#4,651
1950s0——
1960s0——
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1980s93#4,126 (1985)#5,113
1990s1,177#939 (1990)#1,452
2000s2,095#942 (2008)#1,148
2010s3,005#763 (2015)#894
2020s1,016#1,081 (2020)#1,383

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.

Alannah in 1948

girls
#4,651
6 births · 1 in 282,985 girls

Top girls' names in 1948

  1. #1Linda96,220
  2. #2Mary68,597
  3. #3Barbara46,826
  4. #4Patricia46,140
  5. #5Susan35,988
  6. #6Sandra31,063
  7. #7Nancy29,411
  8. #8Carol28,977
  9. #9Sharon26,143
  10. #10Kathleen23,257
  11. #4,651Alannah6
More about 1948

girls

1,697,908 girls got a published name in 1948; 1 in 282,985 of them was named Alannah, which outranked 23.0% of the 6,040 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alannah
  1. #4,205Zenora7
  2. #4,205Zeola7
  3. #4,205Zeta7
  4. #4,651Alannah6
  5. #4,651Adelyn6
  6. #4,651Adina6
  7. #4,651Adlean6
  8. #5,243Adena5
  9. #5,243Adonica5
  10. #5,243Adrene5

Tied with 591 names at #4,651; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1947
Risers
  1. ↑ 555Shawn#1,510 → #955
  2. ↑ 549Regena#1,488 → #939
  3. ↑ 491Regenia#1,255 → #764
  4. ↑ 460Mickie#1,228 → #768
  5. ↑ 413Shirleen#1,377 → #964
Fallers
  1. ↓ 408Michaele#859 → #1,267
  2. ↓ 358Marge#969 → #1,327
  3. ↓ 334Ilona#875 → #1,209
  4. ↓ 282Trudi#875 → #1,157
  5. ↓ 248Marylyn#909 → #1,157

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

See the top 100 for 1948 →