Alanna

What Alanna means

Form of Elon, meaning “oak tree”

variant spelling of Alana || Borrowed from Hebrew אֵילֹן (ʼÊlōn, literally “oak tree”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Alanna” (revision 94593836) and “Elon” (revision 94539075), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Alanna?

US: Rising: up from #509 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #577 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 1,099 girls got the name (#280 that year). First in the US records in 1930.

How common

• About 1 in 1,462 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 5,756 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (1.5 per 1,000 girls), FL (1.43 per 1,000 girls), CT (1.3 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Alanna is #280 in the US and #816 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Alanna were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Alina2,204 US · 208 E&W
• Alana2,085 US · 190 E&W
• Alani1,843 US · 40 E&W
• Alaina1,366 US · 49 E&W
• Elaina1,176 US · 37 E&W
• Alayna927 US · 214 E&W
• Aleena436 US · 150 E&W
• Alena398 US · 25 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Alanna

Girls

• Maeve#76“intoxicating”^*
• Rory#230“red-haired king”^*
• Guinevere#898Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #898 vs #2,788 in 2025
• Gwen#725Same root as Wendy, meaning “watercourse with a bend + island”^*
• Anya#375Editor’s note Up from #550 in 2015 to #375 in 2025 in the US
• Gwendolyn#360Variant of Gwendolen, meaning “white, fair, blessed + ring, bow…^*

For a brother

• Callum#118Variant of Calum, meaning “dove”^*
• Kieran#389Editor’s note Up from #512 in 2015 to #389 in 2025 in the US
• Rowan#59“little red one”^*
• Kian#400Editor’s note Up from #489 in 2015 to #400 in 2025 in the US
• Calum#799“dove”^*
• Idris#694Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #142 vs #694 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Irish & Celtic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Alanna’s. Rank is US 2025.