Alána
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alána is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: alana (“awakening”); the modern usage is reinforced by English Alana.
- GYGuyana1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.7K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 6.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Alána itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 274 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
121,124 people, 2022
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Alana in BR Brazil, US United States, PY Paraguay and 2 more and Ilana in ZA South Africa, LV Latvia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)alana (“awakening”); the modern usage is reinforced by English Alana.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Irish first names
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Alána counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #576 | 121,124 | 1 in 1.7K | 121K | Alana | 161 |
| US United States | — | 54,144 | 1 in 6.1K | 54K | Alana | 274 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 3 | Alana | 64 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | 12 | Alana | 60 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Ilana | 12 |
| PY Paraguay | #666 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Alana | 11 |
| GY Guyana | — | 523 | 1 in 1.4K | 523 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | — | 269as Ilana | 1 in 7K | 270 | Ilana | 5 |
121,124 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Alána mean, and where does it come from?
- alana (“awakening”); the modern usage is reinforced by English Alana. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 4 other sources.
- Is Alána a male or female name?
- Alána is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Alána have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 121 thousand people named Alána, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alana.
- Where is Alána most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alána is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Alána?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 121,124 people named Alána in 2022, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Alána compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Alána is the 576th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/al%C3%A1naThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Alána” — the 576th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.