Alana
Alana is a girl's name that peaked in 2007, when it was the 143rd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 140th. About 66,000 Alanas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Alana boys named Alana
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 68,295
- Estimated living today
- 66,000
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 143rd
- Rank in 2025
- 140th
- First recorded
- 1930
- Girls / boys
- 68,264 / 31
How old the living Alanas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 68,295 babies given the name since 1930, about 66,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 30,000 of them are children and 2,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 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
Feminine form of Alan. In regular use since the 20th century.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Alanas
- Alana de la Garza (born 1976)American actress
- Alana Evans (born 1976)American pornographic actress
- Alana Haim (born 1991)American musician and actress
- Alana Gebremariam (born 1997)Belarusian pro-democracy activist and feminist
- Alana King (born 1995)cricketer
- Alana Boyd (born 1984)Australian pole vaulter
- Alana Beard (born 1982)American basketball player
- Alana Boden (born 1997)English actress
People named Alana with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Alana is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Alana is most concentrated in Hawaii (3.5×), Florida (2.2×), Nevada (2.2×), Arizona (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular girls’ names the year Alana peaked:
Alana elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Alana | 6,638 | 172nd |
| France girls | Alana | 2,755 | 348th |
| Scotland girls | Alana | 2,224 | 69th |
| New Zealand girls | Alana | 1,194 | 49th |
| Ireland girls | Alana | 1,151 | 89th |
| Belgium girls | Alana | 481 | 187th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Alana | 421 | 67th |
| Switzerland girls | Alana | 359 | 187th |
| Spain girls | Alana | 312 | 84th |
| Poland girls | Alana | 39 birth registrations | 440th |
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.
Alana: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Alana | 190 | 0.015% | 259th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Alana | 167 | 0.038% | 92nd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Alana | 1 | 0.002% | 179th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Alana | 1 | 0.027% | 4th |
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.
By canton, Alana is most concentrated in Fribourg, where 0.05% of children were given it – 32 of them.
Alana: rank by region
In 2025, Alana was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Alana | 450 | 11 |
In 2023, Alana was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Śląskie | Alana | 250 | 2 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Alana appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (308th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 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.
Alana by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 11 | 351st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Alana 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 | Alana | 46 | 68 |
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 Alana lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,745 women called Alana 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 | Alana | 119 | 0.215 | 517 |
| Palmas, Las | Alana | 106 | 0.180 | 601 |
| Pontevedra | Alana | 61 | 0.124 | 599 |
| Cantabria | Alana | 34 | 0.111 | 664 |
| Coruña, A | Alana | 59 | 0.100 | 681 |
| Araba/Álava | Alana | 17 | 0.098 | 863 |
Listed in 44 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 8 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
Alana 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.