Something someone who searches my name up would find out is that it is derived from an old high German word that mean precious child. In Gaelic Alanna means serenity or beauty. Also, it is the name of a book a young adult series named The Song of the Lioness. There are also several celebrities around the world named the names Alanna such as, Alanna Heiss, American pioneer of alternative exhibition space and Alanna Nobbs, Australian historian and current President of the Society for the Study of Early Christianity.