Alanah
#2,645 for girls in 2025, 65 births
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 216 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,226since 1984
Alanah over time
Rank among girls' names. Alanah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,645 | 65 |
| 2024 | #2,218 | 85 |
| 2023 | #2,107 | 91 |
| 2022 | #1,953 | 101 |
| 2021 | #1,612 | 130 |
| 2020 | #2,050 | 90 |
| 2019 | #1,949 | 100 |
| 2018 | #1,774 | 115 |
| 2017 | #1,451 | 155 |
| 2016 | #1,465 | 157 |
| 2015 | #1,425 | 162 |
| 2014 | #1,308 | 181 |
| 2013 | #1,227 | 196 |
| 2012 | #1,136 | 216 |
| 2011 | #1,257 | 190 |
| 2010 | #1,260 | 190 |
| 2009 | #1,366 | 174 |
| 2008 | #1,151 | 223 |
| 2007 | #1,217 | 205 |
| 2006 | #1,353 | 171 |
| 2005 | #1,333 | 164 |
| 2004 | #1,464 | 138 |
| 2003 | #1,915 | 95 |
| 2002 | #1,771 | 102 |
| 2001 | #1,957 | 88 |
| 2000 | #2,122 | 76 |
| 1999 | #2,038 | 76 |
| 1998 | #2,398 | 58 |
| 1997 | #2,174 | 63 |
| 1996 | #2,084 | 66 |
| 1995 | #2,932 | 40 |
| 1994 | #2,935 | 40 |
| 1993 | #2,768 | 43 |
| 1992 | #3,036 | 38 |
| 1991 | #2,790 | 42 |
| 1990 | #2,737 | 42 |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 |
| 1988 | #5,321 | 15 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alanah! It came in at #9,144, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1984–1987, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
See more about Alanah
- 427 spots since 2024 (#2,218 → #2,645)
- 595 spots since 2020 (#2,050 → #2,645)
- 1,220 spots since 2015 (#1,425 → #2,645)
- Debuted 1984
- Peaked 2012 at #1,136 (216 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,153 girls born in 2012 were named Alanah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 39.3% of all girls named Alanah (1,662) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 58 | #5,049 (1989) | #7,733 |
| 1990s | 508 | #2,038 (1999) | #2,589 |
| 2000s | 1,436 | #1,151 (2008) | #1,565 |
| 2010s | 1,662 | #1,136 (2012) | #1,425 |
| 2020s | 562 | #1,612 (2021) | #2,098 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alanah in 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
More about 2003
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1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 19,233 of them was named Alanah, which outranked 89.6% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,896Tabatha96
- #1,896Vivien96
- #1,896Willa96
- #1,915Alanah95
- #1,915Amariah95
- #1,915Angelita95
- #1,915Desteny95
- #1,925Alanis94
- #1,925Alexzandria94
- #1,925Azalea94
Tied with 9 names at #1,915; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.