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How popular is the name Alana?
Births per year, rank history and how many Alanas are alive today.
Alana (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 244th in 2025 with 190 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2016, when 320 babies were given the name, the 172nd most popular that year. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 6,600 babies have been named Alana in England and Wales since 1996.
The Alana you are most likely to meet is around 9 years old. Half of all Alanas born in England and Wales are between 9 and 26, and there are at least 7,700 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 2.4% chance that at least one of them will be called Alana.
How many babies are named Alana each year?
Where does Alana rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Alana most popular?
Alana peaked in 2016, when 320 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Alana?
At least 7,700 people named Alana born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Alana?
Most living Alanas are between 9 and 26; the most common age is about 9.
Is Alana becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.