Alannah
#1,673 for girls in 2025, 123 births
- Peak · girls
- 2015 · 370 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,392since 1948
Alannah over time
Rank among girls' names. Alannah has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,673 | 123 |
| 2024 | #1,509 | 143 |
| 2023 | #1,486 | 146 |
| 2022 | #1,367 | 170 |
| 2021 | #1,181 | 206 |
| 2020 | #1,081 | 228 |
| 2019 | #988 | 261 |
| 2018 | #865 | 313 |
| 2017 | #913 | 293 |
| 2016 | #876 | 320 |
| 2015 | #763 | 370 |
| 2014 | #947 | 284 |
| 2013 | #855 | 303 |
| 2012 | #846 | 315 |
| 2011 | #918 | 283 |
| 2010 | #969 | 263 |
| 2009 | #992 | 267 |
| 2008 | #942 | 288 |
| 2007 | #985 | 272 |
| 2006 | #1,074 | 237 |
| 2005 | #1,168 | 197 |
| 2004 | #1,067 | 216 |
| 2003 | #1,146 | 189 |
| 2002 | #1,370 | 141 |
| 2001 | #1,181 | 173 |
| 2000 | #1,551 | 115 |
| 1999 | #1,378 | 128 |
| 1998 | #1,557 | 106 |
| 1997 | #1,412 | 118 |
| 1996 | #1,446 | 113 |
| 1995 | #1,598 | 94 |
| 1994 | #1,770 | 82 |
| 1993 | #1,538 | 101 |
| 1992 | #1,673 | 90 |
| 1991 | #1,205 | 143 |
| 1990 | #939 | 202 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 |
| 1987 | #4,660 | 17 |
| 1986 | #4,347 | 18 |
| 1985 | #4,126 | 19 |
| 1984 | #4,737 | 15 |
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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 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Connecticut#394 · 1 in 1,761
- Massachusetts#399 · 1 in 1,820
- Pennsylvania#514 · 1 in 2,469
- Indiana#624 · 1 in 3,029
- Tennessee#637 · 1 in 3,104
Best ever in a state: #182 in Rhode Island, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | #394 | 7 | 1 in 1,761 |
| Massachusetts | #399 | 14 | 1 in 1,820 |
| Pennsylvania | #514 | 21 | 1 in 2,469 |
| Indiana | #624 | 10 | 1 in 3,029 |
| Tennessee | #637 | 10 | 1 in 3,104 |
| North Carolina | #644 | 14 | 1 in 3,236 |
| Ohio | #645 | 15 | 1 in 3,471 |
| Florida | #698 | 23 | 1 in 3,770 |
| Illinois | #726 | 15 | 1 in 3,842 |
| South Carolina | #733 | 5 | 1 in 3,572 |
| Maryland | #777 | 6 | 1 in 4,007 |
| Texas | #781 | 39 | 1 in 4,290 |
| Minnesota | #873 | 5 | 1 in 4,908 |
| Colorado | #916 | 5 | 1 in 4,712 |
| Missouri | #958 | 5 | 1 in 5,425 |
| California | #966 | 34 | 1 in 5,992 |
| Georgia | #995 | 9 | 1 in 5,339 |
| New York | #1,028 | 15 | 1 in 5,989 |
| Virginia | #1,036 | 6 | 1 in 6,190 |
| Arizona | #1,085 | 5 | 1 in 6,189 |
| Washington | #1,100 | 5 | 1 in 6,429 |
| Michigan | #1,115 | 6 | 1 in 7,012 |
| New Jersey | #1,168 | 5 | 1 in 7,315 |
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See more about Alannah
- 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)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 2015 at #763 (370 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 2007–2019
- 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%)
- 40.7% of all girls named Alannah (3,005) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 6 | #4,651 (1948) | #4,651 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 93 | #4,126 (1985) | #5,113 |
| 1990s | 1,177 | #939 (1990) | #1,452 |
| 2000s | 2,095 | #942 (2008) | #1,148 |
| 2010s | 3,005 | #763 (2015) | #894 |
| 2020s | 1,016 | #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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
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1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 5,538 of them was named Alannah, which outranked 95.4% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
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Tied with 6 names at #876; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.