girls:
2k births since 1990
#3852 (33rd percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1990
#5807 (25th percentile)
The name Alyana is the #5,807 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,962 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 24.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,852 (32.6% percentile) for all time with 1,962 births since 1990.
Alyana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (first recorded for girls in 1990). Birth data for Alyana is available in 32 out of the 34 years between 1990 and 2023. 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, Alyana reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 11.2% percentile (ranked #843) with 59 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 59 births per million (ranked 11.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Alyana ranks #859 for girls (9.3% percentile) with 53 births per million, which is 90.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alyana".
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Our model has identified 21 different pronunciations for the name Alyana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 14.8% confident that Alyana is pronounced as uhl-YAH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is al-YAH-nuh, at 9.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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