Alannah
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alannah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant spelling of Alanna, possibly influenced by names of Hebrew origin such as Hannah and Susannah and by the Anglo-Irish term of endearment alannah (Gaelic a leanbh ‘O child’).
- AUAustralia≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 60K
- CACanada≈1 in 84K
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)
- Sources
- 258 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
5,509 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant spelling of Alanna, possibly influenced by names of Hebrew origin such as Hannah and Susannah and by the Anglo-Irish term of endearment alannah (Gaelic a leanbh ‘O child’).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alannah 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 | — | 5,509 | 1 in 60K | 5.5K | Alannah | 258 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 6 | Alannah | 144 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 830K | — | Alannah | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 99K | 4 | Alannah | 131 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 84K | 4 | Alannah | 141 |
| IE Ireland | #577 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 87 | Alannah | 62 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 10 | Alannah | 43 |
5,509 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); NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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)
Alannah 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 English, A female given name from the Celtic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
English (esp. U.S.): respelling of ALANA , possibly influenced by names of Hebrew origin such as HANNAH and Susannah (see SUSANNA ) and by the Anglo-Irish term of endearment alannah (Gaelic a leanbh O child).
as a word
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)
- Alannah O'Sullivanb. 1951NZNew Zealand actress and scriptwriter (1951— )
- Alannah MacTiernanb. 1953AUAustralian politician
- Alannah Currieb. 1957NZNew Zealand musician
- Alannah Mylesb. 1958CACanadian singer and songwriter
- Lady Alannah Browneb. 1980GByoungest daughter of Jeremy Browne, 11th Marquess of Sligo, and Jennifer Cooper; born 1980
- Alannah Yipb. 1993CACanadian sport climber
- Alannah Stephensonb. 1996GBIrish badminton player
- Alannah Rosewoodb. 1996AUAustralian association football player
- Alannah McEvoyb. 2001IEIrish association football player
- Alannah Binottoice dancer
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 46 sources across 28 countries.
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 Alannah mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant spelling of Alanna, possibly influenced by names of Hebrew origin such as Hannah and Susannah and by the Anglo-Irish term of endearment alannah (Gaelic a leanbh ‘O child’). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Alannah a male or female name?
- Alannah 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 Alannah?
- In the etymology graph, Lana, Alana and Alanna are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Alannah have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.5 thousand people named Alannah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alannah.
- How common is the name Alannah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,509 people named Alannah in 2020, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Alannah compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Alannah is the 577th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Alannah?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alannahThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Alannah” — the 577th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.