Alana
Alana places #140 across the country in 2025, with the curve still pointing up. Its record runs from 1930 through a 2007 peak, 68,264 children in all.
Alana’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Alana, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Alana since 1930
Alana peaked in 2007 at #143; #140 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Alana is most common
The state that gives Alana most often, per girls born there, is Hawaii (0.47% in 2025); Florida and Delaware are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Alana
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Ariana
#128 in 2025
Ariella
#174 in 2025
Antonio
#176 in 2025 · Latin
Athena
#109 in 2025
Adalynn
#184 in 2025
Allison
#103 in 2025
Abraham
#209 in 2025
Alaina
#224 in 2025
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About Alana
Where does Alana rank right now?
Alana places #140 across the country in 2025, with the curve still pointing up. The full curve since 1930 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Alana mean?
The public-domain references we cite do not record a meaning for Alana, so this page does not invent one.
What names go with Alana?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Ariana, Ariella and Antonio, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Alana’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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