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Alanmichael vs Alanna

American parents have registered 27,019 Alannas since 1880, against 221 Alanmichaels. Alanna is still ahead, with 1,099 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alanmichael against Alanna, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alanmichael Alanna

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Alanna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1930 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1991, when Alanmichael had 32 and Alanna had 476.

Side by side

  Alanmichael Alanna
Total US births 22127,019
Most in one year 321,099
Babies in 2025 under 51,099
Estimated living today 21026,000
Median age today 3320
Peak year 19912025
Best rank 2,227th boys280th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked280th
First recorded 19881930
Girls / boys 0 / 22127,012 / 7

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Alanmichaels alive today are over 33; half the Alannas are over 20. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Alanmichael and Alanna.