Alanna
Appearance
Pronunciation | ah-lah-nah |
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Gender | Female, unisex (Hawaii) |
Origin | |
Word/name | Irish/Old High German |
Meaning | "precious"/"child" |
Other names | |
Variant form(s) | Aleana |
Alana, Alanna, or Alannah is a female given name. It can be derived either from the Old High German word for "precious" or from the Irish language term "a leanbh" for "child".[citation needed]
Alana is also a unisex given name in the Hawaiian community meaning fair, beautiful, offering, “harmony”.[citation needed] In Aramaic, Alanna means "high", "elevated" or "exalted".[citation needed]
People with the given name Alana/Alaina/Alanna/Alannah/Alanah
- Alaina Lockhart (born 1974), Canadian politician
- Alana Blanchard, American professional surfer and model
- Alana Boden, English actress
- Alana Bridgewater, Canadian singer and actor from the Canadian production of the musical We Will Rock You
- Alana Evans, American pornographic actress
- Alana Haim, American musician and member of the band Haim
- Alana Henderson, Northern Irish singer-songwriter and cellist
- Alana Mann, food activist
- Alana Paon, Canadian politician
- Alana Patience, Australian ballroom dancer and two times winner of Dancing with the Stars
- Alana Shipp, American/Israeli IFBB professional bodybuilder
- Alana Thompson, American child star of the TLC reality TV series Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
- Alanah Pearce, Australian video game writer
- Alanah Woody, American archeologist and anthropologist
- Alanna Knight (1923–2020), British writer
- Alanna Kraus, Canadian skater
- Alanna Goldie (born 1994), Canadian fencer
- Alanna Heiss, American pioneer of alternative exhibition space
- Alanna Masterson, American actress best known for portraying Tara Chambler on The Walking Dead TV series
- Alanna Nash, American journalist and biographer
- Alanna Nihell (born 1985), Irish boxer
- Alanna Nobbs, Australian historian and current President of the Society for the Study of Early Christianity
- Alanna Rizzo, American sports reporter
- Alanna Schepartz, American scientist
- Alanna Ubach, American actress
- Alannah Currie, New Zealand musician from the Thompson Twins
- Alannah Hill, Australian fashion designer
- Alannah MacTiernan, Australian politician
- Alannah Mikac, Australian girl whose death in the Port Arthur massacre inspired the founding of The Alannah and Madeline Foundation
- Alannah Myles, Canadian singer-songwriter
People with given name Alena/Alenah
- Alena Šeredová, Czech model
- Alena Vránová, Czech actress
- Alena Vrzáňová, Czech sportswoman and figure skater
Fictional characters
- Alana, a female Transformer from Transformers: Generation 1
- Alana Beck, from Dear Evan Hansen
- Alanna Mosvani, in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series
- Alanna of Trebond, in Tamora Pierce's Tortall novels, beginning with Alanna: The First Adventure
- Alana Reeves, the main character in the novel Forget Me Not by Elizabeth Lowell
- Alana, in the 1990s Australian TV series The Girl from Tomorrow
- Alana, one of Ariel’s sisters in The Little Mermaid franchise
- Alana Bloom, in the TV series Hannibal
- Alana from the Saga comic book series
- Alanna, an inhabitant of the planet Rann in American comic books published by DC Comics
- Alana Fitzgerald, a character in the Family Guy episode, All About Alana.
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Alana or Alanah
- All pages with titles beginning with Alanna or Alannah