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Alannah

#1,674 in 2025Girls' name

Child

Alannah has been given to 7,392 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #1,674 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 370 recorded.

Babies named Alannah, 2025

1 in 27,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alannah: meaning, origin, and history

Child

Celtic languages

What Alannah means

Alannah means “child”, associated with alanna.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Modern variant of Alana, the feminine form of Alan. Also associated with the affectionate Anglo-Irish term of address alanna (“child”). The spelling is influenced by names of Hebrew origin such as Hannah and Susannah.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Alannah 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, 7,392 girls were recorded with the name Alannah between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 370 in 2015; its best national rank was #763 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,081 in 2020 to #1,674 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #763 in 2015 to #1,674 in 2025.

How common is Alannah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 27,000
123 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,674
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,683 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alannah 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,683 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alannah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alannahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alannah was born before 2011 — so the typical Alannah is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,386
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Choose a decade

2010s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (3,005).

Is Alannah 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
−165
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−593
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−911
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.2%
Peak was 2015 (370)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#763
2015

Spellings of Alannah

Alannah is not the most common spelling — Hannah is, with 50.6% against Alannah's 0.80%.

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 Alannah is used

Across 2016–2025, Alannah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 4,545 girls, against 1 in 7,059 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 50,000).

222 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 4,545
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 4,545
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 4,545
  4. 4Indiana1 in 5,000
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 5,556
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 5,882
  7. 7Ohio1 in 5,882
  8. 8Illinois1 in 6,250

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.

Alannah around the world

Where Alannah 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
    #705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1984–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2025
    #334
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1983–2025
    #103
    in 2025
  • France
    1997–2025
    #4,107
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1951–2013
    #205
    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 Alannah

People whose public names include Alannah, 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.

Alannah in other languages

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

AlanahAlanna

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

Alannah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,674
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 593
Best rank ever
#763
2015
Peak year
2015
370 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,392
Count in 2025
123

Names similar to Alannah

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

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Names with a curve like Alannah

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

JaydeNathalyKyndallNathaliaKarleighCambriaMiyaAveriAnneliseMiahKylahAmia

Sibling names for Alannah

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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