Alana

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Alana is ranked 143rd among girls in 2024 (2,054 births). Its best rank was 143rd, in 2007, 2024.

Rank in 2024: #143up 41 from 2023
Births in 2024: 2,0540.13% of girls
Peak year: 20072,461 births
Best rank: #143first in 2007
Since 1930: 66,156people given the name

Babies named Alana, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

66,156 girls have been named Alana in the United States since 1930, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 2,461 births — 0.13% of all girls recorded that year.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 197 → 143).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2000s alone account for 27%. It has spent 79 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Alana
1930s	44
1940s	1,143
1950s	1,413
1960s	1,889
1970s	3,518
1980s	6,916
1990s	9,220
2000s	17,934
2010s	16,255
2020s	7,824

In 2007, its biggest year

Alana was the 143rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2007 were Emily, Isabella, Emma, Ava and Madison. See all of 2007.

Names that rose and fell with Alana

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.