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Alanah

#2,648 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly noble, through Alana

Alanah has been given to 4,226 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #2,648 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 223 recorded.

Babies named Alanah, 2025

1 in 51,000

Alanah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alanah: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly noble, through Alana

Celtic languages

What Alanah means

Alanah belongs to the name family reached through Alanah → Alana → Alan. Its meaning is “noble”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Rare spelling variant of Alana, the feminine form of Alan.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Alanah (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Alanah is used in English. Its origins include Celtic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alana and Alan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,226 girls were recorded with the name Alanah between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 223 in 2008; its best national rank was #1,136 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,051 in 2020 to #2,648 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,425 in 2015 to #2,648 in 2025.

How common is Alanah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 51,000
65 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 24,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,648
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
35,353 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alanah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 35,353 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alanah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alanahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alanah was born before 2010 — so the typical Alanah is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,226
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (1,662).

Is Alanah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−430
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−597
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,223
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.40×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.1%
Peak was 2008 (223)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,136
2012

Spellings of Alanah

Alanah is not the most common spelling — Alana is, with 11.3% against Alanah's 0.70%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Alanah is used

Across 2016–2025, Alanah was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 15,079 across all states with data. It was least common in Arizona (1 in 50,000).

210 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 10,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 11,111
  3. 3California1 in 12,500
  4. 4Ohio1 in 12,500
  5. 5Texas1 in 12,500
  6. 6Georgia1 in 16,667
  7. 7Illinois1 in 16,667
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Alanah around the world

Where Alanah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1984–2012
    #815
    in 2012
  • Northern Ireland
    2002–2010
    #430
    in 2010
  • Ireland
    1992–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    1996–2025
    #4,773
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #2,936
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1962–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Alanah

People whose public names include Alanah, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Alanah in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Alanah. Linked forms have their own page here.

AlanaAlannah

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Alanah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,648
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 597
Best rank ever
#1,136
2012
Peak year
2008
223 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,226
Count in 2025
65

Names similar to Alanah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Alanah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alanah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Alanah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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