Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Alanah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alanah” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Alanah” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Alanah” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Alanah” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Alanah” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Alanah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alanah” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1984 6 0.00000172 6 100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 100%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1988 15 0.000004059 15 100%
1989 17 0.000004422 17 100%
1990 42 0.000010626 42 100%
1991 42 0.000010782 42 100%
1992 38 0.000009893 38 100%
1993 43 0.000011405 43 100%
1994 40 0.000010759 40 100%
1995 40 0.000010923 40 100%
1996 66 0.000018096 66 100%
1997 63 0.000017376 63 100%
1998 58 0.000015769 58 100%
1999 76 0.000020575 76 100%
2000 76 0.000020106 76 100%
2001 88 0.000023508 88 100%
2002 102 0.000027285 102 100%
2003 95 0.000024985 95 100%
2004 138 0.000036117 138 100%
2005 164 0.000042655 164 100%
2006 171 0.000043223 171 100%
2007 205 0.00005128 205 100%
2008 223 0.000056733 223 100%
2009 174 0.000045548 174 100%
2010 189 0.00005114 189 100%
2011 190 0.000051944 190 100%
2012 216 0.000059059 216 100%
2013 196 0.000053762 196 100%
2014 181 0.000048835 181 100%
2015 162 0.000043773 162 100%
2016 157 0.000042794 157 100%
2017 155 0.000043342 155 100%
2018 115 0.000032709 115 100%
2019 99 0.000028523 99 100%
2020 90 0.000026941 90 100%
2021 130 0.000038371 130 100%
2022 101 0.000029854 101 100%
2023 91 0.000027483 91 100%
2024 85 0.000025537 85 100%

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