Entry № 377 · Other origin

Alana Alana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-LAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Irish/Scottish dear child + Hawaiian peace"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "irish/scottish dear child + hawaiian peace".

Alana is a girls' name meaning irish/scottish dear child + hawaiian peace.

Irish/Scottish dear child + Hawaiian peace.

The name in its native script.

Alana
Transliteration
Alana
Pronunciation
/ əˈlɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Alana stands.

Alana does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Alanas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Celtic + Hawaiian naming
Irish/Scottish dear child + Hawaiian alana offering peace awakening + pan-Celtic + Pacific Islander heritage
Celtic + Hawaiian

Names connected to Alana.

The number behind Alana.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Alana reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.