Alania
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/alanja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alania is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 4.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 335K
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alania 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #661 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Alania | 55 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 335K | — | Alania | 18 |
| US United States | — | 149 | 1 in 2.2M | 646 | Alania | 114 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | 474 | Alania | 30 |
| ES Spain | — | 78 | 1 in 641K | 78 | Alania | 19 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 281K | 1 | Alania | 15 |
| PL Poland | — | 48 | 1 in 798K | 41 | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Alania is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A medieval kingdom of the Alans (proto-Ossetians) in the Northern Caucasus, roughly in the location of the modern republics of Adygea, Chechnya, Ingushetia and North Ossetia-Alania in modern Russia, existing from the 9th to 13th centuries CE.
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)
- Gerardo Alania MoralesPEPeruvian politician
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 149 | #116,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 120 | #142,049 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 78 | #32,740 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 78 | #32,674 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 41 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 41 | #56,547 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 25 | #168,311 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #159,493 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Alania?
- A machine transcription gives /alanja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Alania have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.6 thousand people named Alania in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alania.
- How common is the name Alania?
- In the United States, the national register counted 149 people named Alania in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
- How common is Alania compared with other names?
- In Peru, Alania is the 661st most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Alania?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alaniaThe 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, “Alania” — the 661st most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.