Alanis is the feminine of Alan — possibly from the Celtic *ailín* ("rock, little rock") or Greek *alanos* ("harmonious") — used as a 1970s North American given name. **Alanis Morissette (born 1974)** — **Canadian-American singer-songwriter; her 1995 album *Jagged Little Pill* sold over 33 million copies worldwide — the best-selling debut album ever by a female artist at the time of its release**. **Five Grammy Awards (1996) including Album of the Year — at age 21, the youngest woman to win Album of the Year for over two decades (a record broken by Billie Eilish in 2020)**. **"You Oughta Know" (1995), "Ironic" (1995), "You Learn," "Hand in My Pocket" — Jagged Little Pill is on *Rolling Stone*'s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time**. **The Broadway musical adaptation *Jagged Little Pill* (2019) won the Tony Award for Best Score and was nominated for Best Musical**. **Inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame (2015)**. **Alanis Mitchell** — Mythological reference. **Other Alanis** namesakes include Alanis Obomsawin — Abenaki Canadian documentary filmmaker; Order of Canada — the most-acclaimed Indigenous Canadian documentary director of the 20th century.
Featured throughout 1990s pop music history.
Alanis reduces to six — the number of Grammys.