Alana
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Irish a leanbh, meaning ‘O child’; not the feminine of Alan, though often treated as such in Scotland
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.7K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 6.1K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 6.4K
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 Alana 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)
- Sources
- 274 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
121,124 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 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)
From Irish a leanbh, meaning ‘O child’; not the feminine of Alan, though often treated as such in Scotland.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alana 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 | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 3 | Alana | 64 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | 12 | Alana | 60 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Ilana | 12 |
| PY Paraguay | #666 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Alana is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Celtic: “rhythmic”; Hawaiian: “gentle/light.”
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In French, Feminine form of Alan; Celtic/Breton origin.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Latinate feminine form of jAlan, a comparatively recent coinage. Variants: Alanna, }Alannah.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A female given name from the Celtic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Nom gallois; peut aussi être vu comme féminin d’Alain. Origine celtique, « calme ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alana Laddb. 1943USAmerican actress (1943-2014)
- Alana Stewartb. 1945USAmerican actress
- Alanna Ubachb. 1975USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1975)
- Alana de la Garzab. 1976USAmerican actress
- Alana Evansb. 1976USAmerican pornographic actress
- Alana Austinb. 1982USAmerican exactress
- Alana Boydb. 1984AUAustralian pole vaulter
- Alanna Mastersonb. 1988USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Alana Blanchardb. 1990USAmerican surfer
- Alana Haimb. 1991USAmerican musician and actress (born 1991)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 98 sources across 51 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 121K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 120K | #268 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 68K | #629 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 54K | #848 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 22K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 2.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 731 | #268 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 523 | #173 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 87 | #848 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 67 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 54 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 54 | #1,526 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Alana a male or female name?
- Alana 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.
- What does the name Alana mean, and where does it come from?
- From Irish a leanbh, meaning ‘O child’; not the feminine of Alan, though often treated as such in Scotland. Recorded by Irish first names.
- What are other forms of the name Alana?
- In the etymology graph, Alanna, Alaina and Allana are forms of the same name in other languages; Lana is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Alana?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 121,124 people named Alana in 2022, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Alana compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Alana is the 576th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Alana have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 121 thousand people named Alana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alana.
- Where is Alana most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alana is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alanaThe 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, “Alana” — the 576th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.