Meaning not yet researched.
Alana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,085 in 2025. Its best rank was #140 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Alana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#140 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Alana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,085 girls in 2025. Peak: #140 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 2,461 (2007).
In 2025, 2,085 US girls were named Alana, making it the 140th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3 places from #143 in 2024. That is 25 more than the 2,060 girls named Alana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #140, reached in this year, 2025. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,461, in 2007. For comparison, it was #202 in 2015 and #625 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alana in 93 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1930 with 12 babies. In all, 68,295 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 17,947 babies named Alana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 15,821 US girls were named Alana; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 2,085. In 2025 that was about 1 in 771 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alana ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #43 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 4 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Lana (57,449 babies since 1880), Alanna (27,019 babies since 1880), Alena (16,014 babies since 1880) and Elana (8,909 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Allena, Alynna and Aleana are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Allena (2,101), Alynna (1,026), Aleana (985), Allanah (924), Alauna (876), Alaynna (779), Alainna (766), Alliana (764), Alinah (679), Alinna (660), Alenna (545), Alainah (524), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Alana in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 10 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 299 | #43 | #102 |
| Hawaii | 10 | #69 | #24 |
| Texas | 311 | #82 | #250 |
| California | 294 | #99 | #170 |
| Illinois | 85 | #104 | #188 |
| Nevada | 20 | #109 | #255 |
| New Jersey | 65 | #114 | #155 |
| Oklahoma | 29 | #121 | #419 |
| New York | 125 | #123 | #190 |
| Colorado | 41 | #131 | #255 |
| Georgia | 75 | #132 | #162 |
| South Carolina | 33 | #133 | #139 |
| Delaware | 6 | #140 | #188 |
| Arizona | 41 | #154 | #390 |
| Maryland | 31 | #156 | #180 |
| New Mexico | 9 | #159 | #186 |
| Massachusetts | 35 | #159 | #204 |
| Mississippi | 15 | #163 | #106 |
| North Carolina | 60 | #171 | #203 |
| Connecticut | 18 | #175 | #183 |
| Arkansas | 17 | #176 | #362 |
| Louisiana | 23 | #182 | #234 |
| Idaho | 11 | #193 | — |
| Tennessee | 37 | #211 | #194 |
| Utah | 22 | #213 | #717 |
| Oregon | 16 | #223 | #317 |
| Pennsylvania | 50 | #223 | #198 |
| Kentucky | 19 | #233 | #276 |
| Kansas | 13 | #235 | #460 |
| Alabama | 20 | #237 | #193 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #237 | #128 |
| Virginia | 33 | #246 | #186 |
| Missouri | 24 | #256 | #343 |
| Washington | 27 | #263 | #281 |
| Ohio | 42 | #264 | #163 |
| Indiana | 26 | #267 | #256 |
| Michigan | 34 | #268 | #213 |
| Wisconsin | 19 | #274 | #245 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #338 | #415 |
| Minnesota | 13 | #397 | #405 |
| Iowa | 7 | #438 | #467 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,085 | #140 | — | — |
| 2024 | 2,060 | #143 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,618 | #185 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,422 | #204 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,334 | #224 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,403 | #206 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,341 | #232 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,533 | #200 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,449 | #212 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,576 | #207 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,629 | #202 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,675 | #197 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,759 | #181 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,780 | #176 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,702 | #185 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,819 | #170 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,905 | #172 | — | — |
| 2008 | 2,037 | #166 | — | — |
| 2007 | 2,461 | #143 | — | — |
| 2006 | 2,121 | #167 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,974 | #170 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,913 | #178 | 7 | #8,957 |
| 2003 | 1,621 | #203 | 5 | #10,942 |
| 2002 | 1,391 | #225 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,233 | #257 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,279 | #253 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,246 | #252 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,218 | #254 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,038 | #281 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,155 | #245 | — | — |
| 1995 | 900 | #308 | — | — |
| 1994 | 798 | #335 | — | — |
| 1993 | 773 | #338 | — | — |
| 1992 | 671 | #385 | — | — |
| 1991 | 701 | #367 | — | — |
| 1990 | 720 | #369 | — | — |
| 1989 | 666 | #379 | 6 | #6,962 |
| 1988 | 652 | #370 | — | — |
| 1987 | 623 | #376 | — | — |
| 1986 | 728 | #333 | — | — |
| 1985 | 977 | #255 | 8 | #4,703 |
| 1984 | 655 | #352 | — | — |
| 1983 | 633 | #359 | — | — |
| 1982 | 707 | #340 | — | — |
| 1981 | 639 | #367 | — | — |
| 1980 | 636 | #368 | 5 | #6,272 |
| 1979 | 606 | #373 | — | — |
| 1978 | 441 | #451 | — | — |
| 1977 | 365 | #507 | — | — |
| 1976 | 370 | #490 | — | — |
| 1975 | 442 | #446 | — | — |
| 1974 | 337 | #511 | — | — |
| 1973 | 278 | #576 | — | — |
| 1972 | 227 | #661 | — | — |
| 1971 | 203 | #738 | — | — |
| 1970 | 250 | #651 | — | — |
| 1969 | 211 | #685 | — | — |
| 1968 | 211 | #664 | — | — |
| 1967 | 220 | #643 | — | — |
| 1966 | 200 | #691 | — | — |
| 1965 | 191 | #717 | — | — |
| 1964 | 215 | #707 | — | — |
| 1963 | 199 | #725 | — | — |
| 1962 | 156 | #842 | — | — |
| 1961 | 159 | #835 | — | — |
| 1960 | 127 | #946 | — | — |
| 1959 | 100 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 1958 | 103 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1957 | 116 | #958 | — | — |
| 1956 | 132 | #869 | — | — |
| 1955 | 119 | #899 | — | — |
| 1954 | 139 | #796 | — | — |
| 1953 | 160 | #718 | — | — |
| 1952 | 172 | #678 | — | — |
| 1951 | 189 | #630 | — | — |
| 1950 | 183 | #625 | — | — |
| 1949 | 198 | #591 | — | — |
| 1948 | 221 | #557 | — | — |
| 1947 | 219 | #577 | — | — |
| 1946 | 194 | #573 | — | — |
| 1945 | 134 | #628 | — | — |
| 1944 | 104 | #747 | — | — |
| 1943 | 42 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,118 | — | — |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,031 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,359 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,254 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,261 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,291 | — | — |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,409 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,418 | — | — |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,338 | — | — |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,553 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).