Alannah
About 7,392 American babies have been named Alannah since 1948, most of them around 2015. In 2025 it ranked 1,673rd. About 7,300 Alannahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Alannah
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,392
- Estimated living today
- 7,300
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2015
- Best rank
- 763rd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,673rd
- First recorded
- 1948
How old the living Alannahs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,392 babies given the name since 1948, about 7,300 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 4,500 of them are children and 4 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 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
Modern variant of Alana, the feminine form of Alan. Also associated with the affectionate Anglo-Irish term of address alanna (“child”). The spelling is influenced by names of Hebrew origin such as Hannah and Susannah.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Alannahs
- Alannah Myles (born 1958)Canadian singer and songwriter
People named Alannah with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Alannah is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Alannah is most concentrated in Florida (2.8×), Arizona (1.8×), Massachusetts (1.6×), California (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2015
The most popular girls’ names the year Alannah peaked:
Alannah elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland girls | Alannah | 2,781 | 54th |
| England and Wales girls | Alannah | 2,308 | 427th |
| Scotland girls | Alannah | 452 | 144th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Alannah | 290 | 131st |
| France girls | Alannah | 150 | 3,170th |
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.
Alannah 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 | Alannah | — | 7 |
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.
Related names
Alannah against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.