Alanna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name from the Celtic languages
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alanna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 16K
- CACanada≈1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 413 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
20,264 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
A female given name from the Celtic languages.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alanna 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 20,264 | 1 in 16K | 20K | Alanna | 413 |
| CN China | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Alanna | 10 |
| BR Brazil | — | 7,311 | 1 in 29K | 7.3K | — | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 2 | Alanna | 198 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 3 | Alanna | 154 |
| IE Ireland | #529 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 37 | Alanna | 82 |
| GY Guyana | — | 59 | 1 in 13K | 59 | — | 3 |
20,264 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Alanna is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Icelandic, definite genitive plural of alur
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, definite genitive plural of alr
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Alanna Knightb. 1923GBBritish writer (1923–2020)
- Alanna Heissb. 1943USAmerican businesswoman
- Alanna Nashb. 1950USAmerican journalist and author
- Alanna Ubachb. 1975USAmerican actress (born 1975)
- Alanna Krausb. 1977CACanadian short track speed skater
- Alanna Mastersonb. 1988USAmerican actress
- Alanna Kennedyb. 1995AUAustralian association football player
- Alanna Smithb. 1996AUAustralian basketball player (born 1996)
- Alanna Arringtonb. 1998USAmerican model
- Alanna de la Rossab. 2008COColombian actress
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 59 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 20K | #1,589 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 7.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 7.3K | #2,110 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.1K | #5,807 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 1.5K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.1K | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 59 | #535 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 38 | — |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2017 | 37 | #152 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 37 | #2,110 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 24 | #1,589 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 7 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Alanna mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from the Celtic languages. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Alanna a male or female name?
- Alanna 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 are other forms of the name Alanna?
- In the etymology graph, Alana, Alaina and Allana are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Alanna have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Alanna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alanna.
- How common is the name Alanna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,264 people named Alanna in 2020, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Alanna compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Alanna is the 529th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alannaThe 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, “Alanna” — the 529th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.