Meaning not yet researched.
Alanis: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 72 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,078 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,078 in 1996; #2,459 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Alanis in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,459 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #1,078.
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Alanis: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 72 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,078 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 182 (2013).
In 2025, 72 US girls were named Alanis, making it the 2,459th most common girls’ name of the year, down 389 places from #2,070 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 93 girls named Alanis in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,078, reached in 1996. The most girls given the name in a single year was 182, in 2013. For comparison, it was #1,567 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alanis in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 15 babies. In all, 3,400 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,148 babies named Alanis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 984 US girls were named Alanis; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 118. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,323 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alanis ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #946 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) and Alanna (27,019 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Alanys, Aolanis and Alannis are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Alanys (471), Aolanis (401), Alannis (228), Alianys (160), Ailanys (108), Alianis (108), Alaniz (49), Alannys (33), Aylanis (28), Ailanis (23), Alenis (20), Allenis (20), 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 Alanis 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 7 | #946 | #582 |
| Florida | 13 | #1,116 | #771 |
| New York | 8 | #1,533 | #886 |
| California | 5 | #3,120 | #2,157 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,459 | 7 | #9,759 |
| 2024 | 93 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 2023 | 112 | #1,803 | — | — |
| 2022 | 108 | #1,870 | — | — |
| 2021 | 118 | #1,739 | — | — |
| 2020 | 82 | #2,196 | — | — |
| 2019 | 102 | #1,934 | — | — |
| 2018 | 86 | #2,179 | — | — |
| 2017 | 112 | #1,829 | — | — |
| 2016 | 99 | #1,996 | — | — |
| 2015 | 140 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 2014 | 180 | #1,315 | — | — |
| 2013 | 182 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 2012 | 86 | #2,189 | — | — |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,695 | — | — |
| 2010 | 96 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 2009 | 97 | #2,090 | — | — |
| 2008 | 86 | #2,269 | — | — |
| 2007 | 99 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 2006 | 141 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,950 | — | — |
| 2004 | 110 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 2003 | 94 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 2002 | 115 | #1,607 | — | — |
| 2001 | 119 | #1,562 | — | — |
| 2000 | 107 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 1999 | 151 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 1998 | 108 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 1997 | 148 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 1996 | 172 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 1995 | 15 | #5,965 | — | — |
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).