Fun Facts About the Name Alahna
- More than 1 thousand babies named Alahna: U.S. records list 1,135 babies given the name Alahna from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Alahna Mean?
Alahna is a respelling of Alana, a feminine name that entered English along more than one route, so its meaning depends on which tradition is intended. One derivation treats it as the feminine of Alan, an Irish name built on ailín, "little rock." A second connects it to Elaine and, behind that, to Helen, from the Greek helene, "torch" or "light." A third is Hawaiian Alana, usually glossed as "awakening" or "fair, beautiful." These are separate origins rather than stages of a single line of development, and the spelling Alahna does not by itself show which one a family has in mind.
Alahna Name History & Origins
The spelling Alahna belongs to a cluster of modern English forms of the same name - Alana, Alanna, Alannah, Alaina, Alayna - that differ mainly in vowels and in where the h falls. The form with a final -ah, as in Alanna and Alannah, is the older-looking one and appears in Irish and Irish-diaspora usage, where it was sometimes associated with the Irish phrase a leanbh ("O child"), an affectionate form of address rather than a name meaning. The simpler Alana became a familiar English given name over the course of the twentieth century, and Alahna is one of several respellings that followed.
Because Alahna is chiefly a spelling variant, its own documented history is thin apart from that of Alana; the internal h in Alahna is a stylistic marker rather than a reflection of an Irish or Hawaiian source form.
How Popular is the Name Alahna?
Alahna has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2008. Its best rank was #2,829 in 2005.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #4,989 | 26 | 0.0016% |
| 2024 | #4,654 | 29 | 0.0018% |
| 2023 | #3,979 | 37 | 0.0023% |
| 2022 | #5,030 | 26 | 0.0016% |
| 2021 | #4,720 | 28 | 0.0017% |
| 2020 | #5,007 | 25 | 0.0015% |
| 2019 | #3,788 | 39 | 0.0023% |
| 2018 | #3,563 | 43 | 0.0025% |
| 2017 | #3,773 | 40 | 0.0023% |
| 2016 | #4,739 | 29 | 0.0016% |
| 2015 | #3,536 | 44 | 0.0025% |
| 2014 | #3,654 | 42 | 0.0024% |
| 2013 | #3,079 | 53 | 0.0030% |
| 2012 | #3,418 | 47 | 0.0027% |
| 2011 | #3,604 | 43 | 0.0024% |
| 2010 | #3,206 | 51 | 0.0029% |
| 2009 | #3,461 | 47 | 0.0026% |
| 2008 | #2,856 | 62 | 0.0033% |
| 2007 | #2,995 | 59 | 0.0031% |
| 2006 | #2,849 | 61 | 0.0032% |
| 2005 | #2,829 | 58 | 0.0031% |
| 2004 | #3,992 | 35 | 0.0019% |
| 2003 | #3,806 | 36 | 0.0020% |
| 2002 | #4,182 | 30 | 0.0017% |
| 2001 | #6,329 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2000 | #4,295 | 28 | 0.0015% |
| 1999 | #8,238 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1998 | #8,606 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1997 | #5,878 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 1996 | #6,068 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 1995 | #7,054 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1994 | #8,821 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1993 | #10,618 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1992 | #8,749 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1990 | #11,430 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1986 | #10,939 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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