Alanna Girl
How popular is Alanna?
#280 girl name in 2025
1,099 baby girls were named Alanna in the US in 2025, making it the 280th most popular girl name.
Alanna popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #280 for girls (▲ 10 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,099 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+77% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #509 in 2015, #561 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2025 (1,099 girls) |
| Highest rank | #280 in 2025 |
| First recorded | 1930 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.8% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Alanna counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Alana family of names ranked #81 for girls in 2025 (#87 the year before), with 3,791 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Alana | 2,085 | 55% |
| Alanna | 1,099 | 29% |
| Alannah | 123 | 3% |
| Alanah | 65 | 2% |
| Ailana | 205 | 5% |
| Allana | 50 | 1% |
| Alahna | 26 | 1% |
| Alaynna | 22 | 1% |
| Aylana | 52 | 1% |
| Alainna | 14 | 0% |
| Allanah | 7 | 0% |
| Ahlana | 11 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Alanna is most popular
Babies named Alanna per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Florida: 1.1 per 1,000 (470 girls)
- New Jersey: 1.1 per 1,000 (192 girls)
- New Mexico: 1.0 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- Massachusetts: 0.9 per 1,000 (107 girls)
- Connecticut: 0.8 per 1,000 (48 girls)
Alanna by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 25 | #3,053 |
| 1940s | 175 | #1,408 |
| 1950s | 423 | #1,176 |
| 1960s | 499 | #1,176 |
| 1970s | 1,449 | #752 |
| 1980s | 2,917 | #598 |
| 1990s | 5,030 | #461 |
| 2000s | 6,175 | #463 |
| 2010s | 5,843 | #489 |
| 2020s | 4,476 | #280 |
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Questions
- Is Alanna a boy or girl name?
- Alanna is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Alanna were girls.
- How popular is the name Alanna?
- 1,099 baby girls were named Alanna in the US in 2025, making it the 280th most popular girl name.
- When was Alanna most popular?
- Alanna peaked in 2025, when 1,099 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #280 in 2025.
- How many people are named Alanna?
- 27,019 babies have been named Alanna in the US since 1880. We estimate about 26,470 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 21.
- Where is Alanna most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Alanna was most common in Florida, at 1.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.