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Alanis

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Alanis is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 93 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
930.01% of girls
Peak year
2013182 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1995
3,321people given the name
Babies named Alanis, by year of birthgirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

3,321 girls have been named Alanis in the United States since 1995, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2013, with 182 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2010s alone account for 35%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Alanis
1990s594
2000s1,066
2010s1,148
2020s513

In 2013, its biggest year

Alanis was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2013 were Sophia, Emma, Olivia, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2013.

Names that rose and fell with Alanis

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.