I like Alana a lot, but would rather spell it Alannah / Alanna so there's no doubt about the prn. Since it's honouring an Alan though, I don't suppose that's an option.AlanaMaeve and AlanaFrances are nice from the list. I think WillowAlana is too heavy on the ls, and am not fond of Iris.
I like it. WillowAlana is nice. I also like IrisAlana, AlanaRose, AlanaIsobel, AlanaPearl and AlanaMay. I would go with Alana as the middle name. It is a bit trendy and I can think of at least 4 ways to spell it and all those spellings are quite common.
I prefer Alana. Ellen is a nice name too, but Alana is related to Alan while Ellen is not. I don't think that the Willow combos are too L heavy to use.
Yeah someone on another name site told me that Ellen is related to Helen and Alana is related to Alana so I might stick with that.WillowAlan sounds better to my ears anyway or maybe Alana as a first name.