How Many People Are Named Alannah?

7,320

people named Alannah are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 46,691 people in the US has this name

Based on 7,392 babies named Alannah in Social Security records from 1948 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,967

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,650

See the top 100

Peak Year

2015

370 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Modern), Irish
Pronunciation: ə-LAN-ə (English)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of ALANA. It has been influenced by the affectionate Anglo-Irish word alannah, from the Irish Gaelic phrase a leanbh meaning "O child".

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Alannah in English. Counting Alannah and these spellings together, about 103,392 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Alannah in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Alannah alive today is about 16 years old, and 89% are under 30. Half of them were between 8 and 22 in 2025.

Under 30 6,528
89.2%
30 to 59 787
10.8%
60 and over 4
0.1%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Alannah first appears in the records in 1948 and was given most often in 2015, to 370 babies. In 2025, 123 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1948 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Alannah has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #763, in 2015. In 2025 it ranked #1,674.

Girls
Rank in 2025#1,674
Best rank#763 (2015)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#913 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Alannah alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Alannah were born in California than in any other state: about 847 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Alannah was given 2.2 times as often in Massachusetts, 1.7 times in Florida and 1.5 times in New York.

California 847
Texas 636
Florida 519
New York 500
Pennsylvania 299
Ohio 269
Michigan 225
Illinois 224
Massachusetts 216
North Carolina 179
New Jersey 161
Georgia 156
Indiana 143
Virginia 123
Arizona 121
Tennessee 100
Washington 87
Colorado 79
Maryland 73
Missouri 71
Wisconsin 66
Alabama 36
South Carolina 26
New Mexico 23
Connecticut 23
Kentucky 18
Minnesota 16
Mississippi 16
Oklahoma 13
Oregon 10
Louisiana 10
West Virginia 8
Rhode Island 5
Maine 5
New Hampshire 5
Kansas 5
Iowa 5
Nevada 5

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