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Alane

Girls' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Alane has been given to 1,664 babies in the U.S. since 1940. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1964, with 97 recorded.

Babies named Alane, 2022

1 in 677,000

Alane 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alane: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alane means

Alane is a given name.

The naming story behind Alane

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Alane in its glossary. The entry labels it feminine and points to printed page(s) 279.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Ger. Lat. cheerful, Kelt. harmony”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Alane, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,664 girls were recorded with the name Alane between 1940 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 97 in 1964; its best national rank was #1,112 in 1964.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Alane?

Alane had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alane 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alanes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alane was born before 1963 — so the typical Alane is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
39.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,561
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Choose a decade

1960s — 39.2% of all recorded uses (652).

Is Alane 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1964 (97)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,112
1964

Spellings of Alane

Alane is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 19.2% against Alane's 0.05%.

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 Alane is used

Across 1910–2025, Alane was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 225,714 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  5. 5Connecticut1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 in —

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. Alane has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alane around the world

Where Alane 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.

  • France
    1997–1997
    #4,292
    in 1997

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Alane by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,112
1964
Peak year
1964
97 that year
First recorded
1940
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
1,664
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alane

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

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Sibling names for Alane

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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