As a variant of the male given name Alan, Alana possibly means either ‘little rock’ or ‘handsome’ in Breton. However, its origins and exact meaning are uncertain.
Alana is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Alana isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Alana ranks 189. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 10 were named Alana. In the entire USA, approximately 59,117 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Alana. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
The name Alana may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Alana is apparently especially popular in Hawaii. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 658 women in Hawaii is called Alana. In total, that’s 671 women who feel addressed when the name Alana is shouted loudly across Hawaii and who ensure that their name makes it to #187 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Alana as the answer a total of 59,111 times. This places Alana at #464 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Alana as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With five letters, the name Alana is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Alana and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Alana, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Alana
Alana
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Alana sounds like this:
