Alanna
The girl's name Alanna has been in the national records since 1930, with 27,019 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 280th. About 26,000 Alannas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Alanna boys named Alanna
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 27,019
- Estimated living today
- 26,000
- Median age today
- 20
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 280th
- Rank in 2025
- 280th
- First recorded
- 1930
- Girls / boys
- 27,012 / 7
How old the living Alannas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 27,019 babies given the name since 1930, about 26,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 12,000 of them are children and 490 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 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; variant spelling of Alana. Compare also Alannah.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Alannas
- Alanna Ubach (born 1975)American actress
- Alanna Masterson (born 1988)American actress
- Alanna Kennedy (born 1995)Australian association football player
- Alanna Smith (born 1996)Australian basketball player
- Alanna Kraus (born 1977)Canadian short track speed skater
People named Alanna with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Alanna is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Alanna is most concentrated in Florida (2.2×), Massachusetts (1.8×), Arizona (1.7×), Nevada (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Alanna peaked:
Alanna elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Alanna | 1,854 | 486th |
| Ireland girls | Alanna | 1,687 | 66th |
| Scotland girls | Alanna | 755 | 153rd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Alanna | 330 | 91st |
| France girls | Alanna | 240 | 1,781st |
| Switzerland girls | Alanna | 27 | 1,298th |
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.
Alanna: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Alanna | 15 | 0.001% | 761st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Alanna | 12 | 0.003% | 492nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Alanna among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Alanna | 19 | 27 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Alanna lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 337 women called Alanna 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Alanna | 28 | 0.047 | 1,779 |
| Rioja, La | Alanna | 7 | 0.042 | 1,379 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Alanna | 18 | 0.032 | 2,136 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Alanna | 25 | 0.024 | 2,150 |
| Tarragona | Alanna | 10 | 0.023 | 2,133 |
| Girona | Alanna | 8 | 0.019 | 2,370 |
Listed in 15 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 37 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
Alanna 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.