girls:
1.7k births since 1940
#4098 (28th percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1940
#6085 (21st percentile)
The name Alane is the #6,085 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,664 recorded births since 1940. This represents the 21.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,098 (28.3% percentile) for all time with 1,664 births since 1940.
Alane first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1940 (first recorded for girls in 1940). Birth data for Alane is available in 63 out of the 83 years between 1940 and 2022. 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.
For girls, Alane reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 11.8% percentile (ranked #692) with 50 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 50 births per million (ranked 11.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alane".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Alane is pronounced as uh-LAYN, which has 2 syllables.
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