Ahlana
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- uh-LAH-nuh
- Origin
- Celtic
- US rank, 2025
- #8,858 for girls
Ahlana is a girls' name of Celtic origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
Where does Ahlana come from?
Celtic: variant of Alana, the feminine of Alan
Is Ahlana a girl's or a boy's name?
Ahlana is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ahlana in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,858th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 150,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Ahlana, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.
Half of all the girls named Ahlana in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Ahlana in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,633 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,744 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,105 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,192 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,786 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,884 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,525 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,548 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,282 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,259 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
Nicknames for Ahlana
- Lana 211 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Ahlana
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amira, Amoura, Alani, Alaya, Ailany, Aaliyah, Ayla, Alara, Alaina, Kaylani, Kailani, Ayra
Names related to Ahlana
More Celtic names
Arthur, Imogen, Gael, Harvey, Alan, Tristan, Vienna, Lana, Sabrina, Bryce, Devon, Arturo, Cedric, Clyde, Joyce, Mael
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ahlana: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ahlana, updated 20 October 2026.