Alanna

"Alana" redirects here. For the village in Iran, see Alana, Iran.

Alana, Alanna, Alannah, Ilana

Pronunciation	ah-lah-nah
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".

Alana is also a unisex given name in the Hawaiian community meaning fair, beautiful, offering, “harmony”. In Aramaic, Alanna means "high", "elevated" or "exalted".

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
• 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