girls:
64.1k births since 1930
#498 (91st percentile)
boys:
31 births since 1980
#4555 (1st percentile)
overall:
64.1k births since 1930
#922 (88th percentile)
The name Alana is the #922 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 64,125 recorded births since 1930. This represents the 88.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #498 (91.3% percentile) for all time with 64,094 births since 1930. For boys, it ranks #4,555 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 31 births since 1980.
Alana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1930 (1930 for girls and 1980 for boys). Birth data for Alana is available in 91 out of the 94 years between 1930 and 2023 (91 years for girls and 5 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Alana has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Alana reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 85.6% percentile (ranked #143) with 1,163 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 1,163 births per million (ranked 85.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Alana ranks #177 for girls (81.4% percentile) with 923 births per million, which is 79.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Alana reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alana".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Alana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.0% confident that Alana is pronounced as uh-LA-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LAH-nuh, at 31.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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