girls:
4.1k births since 1984
#2701 (53rd percentile)
overall:
4.1k births since 1984
#4299 (44th percentile)
The name Alanah is the #4,299 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,072 recorded births since 1984. This represents the 44.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 44.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,701 (52.7% percentile) for all time with 4,072 births since 1984.
Alanah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1984 (first recorded for girls in 1984).
For girls, Alanah reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 22.5% percentile (ranked #726) with 111 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 111 births per million (ranked 22.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Alanah ranks #861 for girls (9.1% percentile) with 52 births per million, which is 46.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alanah".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Alanah", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 39 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Alana" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Alana..
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Alanah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.0% confident that Alanah is pronounced as uh-LAH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LA-nuh, at 24.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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