Alane
Alane is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 196497 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1940
- 1,664people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,664 girls have been named Alane in the United States since 1940, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1964, with 97 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 97 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1963, and the 1960s alone account for 39%.
By decade
In 1964, its biggest year
Alane was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1964 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Patricia. See all of 1964.
Names that rose and fell with Alane
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Merripeak 1963
- Lorrypeak 1960
- Donnamariepeak 1961
- Cathipeak 1961
- Sheliapeak 1959
- Taripeak 1959
- Denisepeak 1961
- Brunildapeak 1959
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.