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Allannah

Girls' name

Variant of Alannah

Allannah has been given to 223 babies in the U.S. since 1990. 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 2006, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Allannah, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Allannah: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Alannah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Allannah means

Allannah is a variant of Alannah.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Allannah is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ə.ˈlæn.ə/ and /ə.ˈlɑn.ə/ for Allannah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Allannah → Alannah. The family’s meaning is “child”, recorded in English with the source elements alanna.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alannah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 223 girls were recorded with the name Allannah between 1990 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2006; its best national rank was #5,092 in 2006.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Allannah?

Allannah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Allannah 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Allannah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Allannahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Allannah was born before 2007 — so the typical Allannah is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
53.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
223
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 53.4% of all recorded uses (119).

Is Allannah 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 2006 (27)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
54.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,092
2006

Spellings of Allannah

Allannah is not the most common spelling — Alanna is, with 49.2% against Allannah's 0.41%.

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.

Allannah around the world

Where Allannah 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
    1996–2020
    #4,535
    in 2020
  • Scotland
    1991–1991
    #542
    in 1991
  • Canada
    1992–1992
    #2,433
    in 1992
  • South Australia
    1990–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Allannah 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
#5,092
2006
Peak year
2006
27 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
223
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Allannah

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

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Sibling names for Allannah

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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