Meaning not yet researched.
Alanah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 65 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,136 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,136 in 2012; #2,648 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alanah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,648 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #1,136.
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Alanah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 65 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,136 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 223 (2008).
In 2025, 65 US girls were named Alanah, making it the 2,648th most common girls’ name of the year, down 430 places from #2,218 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 85 girls named Alanah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,136, reached in 2012. The most girls given the name in a single year was 223, in 2008. For comparison, it was #1,425 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alanah in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1984 with 6 babies. In all, 4,226 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,662 babies named Alanah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,089 US girls were named Alanah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 157. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alanah ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,447 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alana (68,295 babies since 1880), Alannah (7,392 babies since 1880), Alaina (50,584 babies since 1880) and Alina (45,387 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Allyanah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Allyanah (11).
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 Alanah 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,447 | #1,093 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,454 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #2,162 | #835 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,397 | #1,357 |
| California | 7 | #2,501 | #1,485 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,648 | — | — |
| 2024 | 85 | #2,218 | — | — |
| 2023 | 91 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 2022 | 101 | #1,954 | — | — |
| 2021 | 130 | #1,612 | — | — |
| 2020 | 90 | #2,051 | — | — |
| 2019 | 100 | #1,949 | — | — |
| 2018 | 115 | #1,774 | — | — |
| 2017 | 155 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 2016 | 157 | #1,465 | — | — |
| 2015 | 162 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 2014 | 181 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 2013 | 196 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 2012 | 216 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 2011 | 190 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 2010 | 190 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 2009 | 174 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 2008 | 223 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 2007 | 205 | #1,217 | — | — |
| 2006 | 171 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 2005 | 164 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 2004 | 138 | #1,464 | — | — |
| 2003 | 95 | #1,915 | — | — |
| 2002 | 102 | #1,772 | — | — |
| 2001 | 88 | #1,957 | — | — |
| 2000 | 76 | #2,123 | — | — |
| 1999 | 76 | #2,039 | — | — |
| 1998 | 58 | #2,398 | — | — |
| 1997 | 63 | #2,174 | — | — |
| 1996 | 66 | #2,085 | — | — |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,932 | — | — |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,935 | — | — |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,769 | — | — |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,038 | — | — |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,790 | — | — |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,737 | — | — |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,051 | — | — |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,328 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,853 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,763 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,323 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,159 | — | — |
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).