girls:
3.2k births since 1995
#3050 (47th percentile)
overall:
3.2k births since 1995
#4800 (38th percentile)
The name Alanis is the #4,800 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,227 recorded births since 1995. This represents the 38.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 38.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,050 (46.6% percentile) for all time with 3,227 births since 1995.
Alanis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1995 (first recorded for girls in 1995).
For girls, Alanis reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 19.5% percentile (ranked #692) with 90 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 94 births per million (ranked 19.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Alanis ranks #841 for girls (11.2% percentile) with 63 births per million, which is 67.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alanis".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Alanis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 29.2% confident that Alanis is pronounced as A-luh-nihs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LA-nihs, at 16.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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