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The first name 
Alanis

Alanis is a first name for girls.

Alanis is a well-known but special name!

Alanis is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,617 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,616 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Alanis.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Alanis

Alanis -
at home in half of America

The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Alanis are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Alanis in 22 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Alanis live in Florida – here, one in 12,215 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 81,443 will turn around if you call her first name Alanis.

Alanis has 6 letters 
and begins with an A

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 six letters, the name Alanis is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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.

Other names with 
A, l, a, n, i and s

If you take all the letters in the name Alanis – A, l, a, n, i and s – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Alisan or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Alanis

If your name is Alanis 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...

This is how you spell the name Alanis

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Alanis, you can simply say:

Apple

Lion

Apple

Nut

Igloo

Sun

This is how the name Alanis is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Alanis in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Alanis

Alanis

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Alanis

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Alanis is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

A
L
A
N
I
S

Have you ever waved the name Alanis

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.

A
L
A
N
I
S

Beeping like crazy...

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. Alanis sounds like this: