Alanis
Alanis reached its high-water mark in 2013 at number 1,289, and has been recorded 3,400 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,458th. About 3,400 Alanises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Alanis boys named Alanis
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,400
- Estimated living today
- 3,400
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2013
- Best rank
- 1,289th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,458th
- First recorded
- 1995
- Girls / boys
- 3,393 / 7
How old the living Alanises are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,400 babies given the name since 1995, about 3,400 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,900 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Celtic languages
A feminine form of Alan best known for the Canadian singer Alanis Morissette whose father was named Alan.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Alaniss
- Alanis Morissette (born 1974)Canadian-American singer
- Alanis Obomsawin (born 1932)Abenaki artist and filmmaker in Montreal
People named Alanis with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Alanis is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Alanis is most concentrated in Florida (6.4×), New York (2.2×), California (2.2×), New Jersey (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2013
The most popular girls’ names the year Alanis peaked:
Alanis elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Alanis | 400 | 658th |
| France girls | Alanis | 245 | 1,365th |
| Belgium girls | Alanis | 63 | 607th |
| Scotland girls | Alanis | 15 | 387th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Alanis | 3 | 358th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Alanis: rank by region
In 2005, Alanis was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Alanis | 475 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Where Alanis lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 173 women called Alanis were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Alanis | 15 | 0.027 | 2,459 |
| Tarragona | Alanis | 6 | 0.014 | 2,956 |
| Balears, Illes | Alanis | 9 | 0.014 | 3,180 |
| Zaragoza | Alanis | 6 | 0.012 | 3,085 |
| Madrid | Alanis | 30 | 0.008 | 4,506 |
| Valencia/València | Alanis | 10 | 0.007 | 4,666 |
Listed in 7 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 45 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Alanis against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.