Fun Facts About the Name Alauna
- 876 babies named Alauna: U.S. records list 876 babies given the name Alauna from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Alauna Mean?
Alauna is a Celtic name, Brittonic in form, usually understood to mean "wandering" or "roaming" - a sense that fits a flowing river. The element behind it, *alaun-, appears in several old place names in Britain and Gaul, including the River Aln in Northumberland and a river called Alauna in Gaul, which is why the name is best described as a hydronym, a river name, before it was anything else. The exact force of the root is not settled. One common explanation connects it with a Celtic word for "wandering, roaming"; another treats it as part of an older, pre-Celtic layer of river names whose original meaning can no longer be recovered. Taken literally, the sense is a description of moving water rather than a statement about a person.
Alauna Name History & Origins
In the Roman period the name is recorded in Britain mainly as a place name. A fort at Maryport in Cumbria was known as Alauna, and a site of the same name appears in the Antonine Itinerary, the Roman road list; the River Aln in Northumberland preserves a form of the name. In those uses it belonged to settlements and rivers, not to individuals. A Celtic water deity named Alauna is also recorded in the Roman period, but the relationship between the divine name and the separate place names is not certain, and it may be a case of one name used in several places rather than a single, continuous tradition.
As a personal given name, Alauna is rare and essentially modern, used chiefly in English-speaking countries and generally taken from the old Celtic name rather than carried down unbroken from Roman Britain. Because of its sound it is sometimes grouped with Alana and Alanna, but those names have their own separate backgrounds and are not simply variant spellings of Alauna.
How Popular is the Name Alauna?
Alauna 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 2006. Its best rank was #3,266 in 2006.
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 | #7,149 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2024 | #5,431 | 23 | 0.0014% |
| 2023 | #9,004 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2022 | #6,994 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 2021 | #6,418 | 18 | 0.0011% |
| 2020 | #5,009 | 25 | 0.0015% |
| 2019 | #6,423 | 18 | 0.0011% |
| 2018 | #4,666 | 29 | 0.0017% |
| 2017 | #4,816 | 28 | 0.0016% |
| 2016 | #5,451 | 24 | 0.0014% |
| 2015 | #4,074 | 36 | 0.0020% |
| 2014 | #5,314 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2013 | #3,703 | 41 | 0.0023% |
| 2012 | #4,605 | 31 | 0.0018% |
| 2011 | #4,073 | 36 | 0.0020% |
| 2010 | #3,692 | 42 | 0.0024% |
| 2009 | #3,412 | 48 | 0.0026% |
| 2008 | #4,454 | 34 | 0.0018% |
| 2007 | #3,851 | 41 | 0.0021% |
| 2006 | #3,266 | 50 | 0.0026% |
| 2005 | #3,735 | 39 | 0.0021% |
| 2004 | #3,751 | 38 | 0.0021% |
| 2003 | #4,546 | 28 | 0.0015% |
| 2002 | #7,059 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2001 | #5,371 | 21 | 0.0012% |
| 2000 | #6,819 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1999 | #6,497 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1998 | #3,915 | 29 | 0.0016% |
| 1997 | #5,881 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 1996 | #7,141 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1995 | #7,055 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1994 | #7,611 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1993 | #8,739 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1989 | #10,879 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1986 | #8,543 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1985 | #8,338 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1983 | #10,299 | 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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