Alen
#3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births
- Peak · boys
- 2005 · 83 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,371since 1918
Alen over time
Rank among boys' names. Alen has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,240 | 36 |
| 2024 | #2,559 | 52 |
| 2023 | #3,117 | 39 |
| 2022 | #2,830 | 45 |
| 2021 | #2,819 | 44 |
| 2020 | #2,925 | 40 |
| 2019 | #3,571 | 31 |
| 2018 | #3,240 | 35 |
| 2017 | #3,071 | 38 |
| 2016 | #2,587 | 48 |
| 2015 | #2,457 | 51 |
| 2014 | #2,461 | 51 |
| 2013 | #2,562 | 47 |
| 2012 | #2,517 | 49 |
| 2011 | #2,626 | 46 |
| 2010 | #2,579 | 47 |
| 2009 | #2,560 | 49 |
| 2008 | #2,207 | 60 |
| 2007 | #1,972 | 71 |
| 2006 | #2,102 | 62 |
| 2005 | #1,635 | 83 |
| 2004 | #1,815 | 68 |
| 2003 | #1,885 | 62 |
| 2002 | #2,372 | 43 |
| 2001 | #1,777 | 63 |
| 2000 | #1,815 | 59 |
| 1999 | #2,347 | 38 |
| 1998 | #2,312 | 38 |
| 1997 | #2,396 | 34 |
| 1996 | #2,183 | 38 |
| 1995 | #2,847 | 25 |
| 1994 | #2,685 | 27 |
| 1993 | #2,641 | 27 |
| 1992 | #2,128 | 36 |
| 1991 | #2,019 | 37 |
| 1990 | #2,695 | 24 |
| 1989 | #2,989 | 20 |
| 1988 | #2,599 | 22 |
| 1987 | #2,942 | 17 |
| 1986 | #2,429 | 22 |
| 1985 | #2,942 | 16 |
| 1984 | #3,459 | 12 |
| 1983 | #2,493 | 19 |
| 1982 | #3,108 | 14 |
| 1981 | #2,569 | 18 |
| 1980 | #2,003 | 27 |
| 1979 | #2,568 | 18 |
| 1978 | #3,614 | 10 |
| 1977 | #3,386 | 11 |
| 1976 | #2,601 | 16 |
| 1975 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #2,674 | 14 |
| 1973 | #2,036 | 20 |
| 1972 | #2,819 | 12 |
| 1971 | #2,813 | 12 |
| 1970 | #3,071 | 10 |
| 1969 | #3,062 | 9 |
| 1968 | #3,107 | 8 |
| 1967 | #2,760 | 9 |
| 1966 | #1,757 | 19 |
| 1965 | #2,270 | 13 |
| 1964 | #1,975 | 17 |
| 1963 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1962 | #1,962 | 17 |
| 1961 | #1,948 | 18 |
| 1960 | #2,042 | 16 |
| 1959 | #2,295 | 13 |
| 1958 | #2,370 | 12 |
| 1957 | #2,019 | 16 |
| 1956 | #2,091 | 15 |
| 1955 | #2,558 | 10 |
| 1954 | #2,207 | 13 |
| 1953 | #2,905 | 8 |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,246 | 12 |
| 1950 | #2,770 | 8 |
| 1949 | #3,019 | 7 |
| 1948 | #2,218 | 12 |
| 1947 | #2,498 | 10 |
| 1946 | #2,403 | 10 |
| 1945 | #2,574 | 8 |
| 1944 | #2,309 | 10 |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,560 | 5 |
| 1941 | #2,656 | 8 |
| 1940 | #2,478 | 9 |
| 1939 | #2,609 | 8 |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #3,518 | 5 |
| 1936 | #3,147 | 6 |
| 1935 | #2,719 | 8 |
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| 1930 | #4,001 | 5 |
| 1929 | — | |
| 1928 | #4,151 | 5 |
| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,139 | 8 |
| 1925 | #2,588 | 11 |
| 1924 | #3,505 | 7 |
| 1923 | #4,239 | 5 |
| 1922 | #3,532 | 7 |
| 1921 | — | |
| 1920 | #4,286 | 5 |
| 1919 | — | |
| 1918 | #4,179 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Alen! It came in at #4,179, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1921, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Alen is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,442 · 1 in 12,733
- California#1,514 · 1 in 17,216
Best ever in a state: #399 in Iowa, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,442 | 7 | 1 in 12,733 |
| California | #1,514 | 11 | 1 in 17,216 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Alen
- 681 spots since 2024 (#2,559 → #3,240)
- 315 spots since 2020 (#2,925 → #3,240)
- 783 spots since 2015 (#2,457 → #3,240)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 2005 at #1,635 (83 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,064 boys born in 2005 were named Alen (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 47,447 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 26.1% of all boys named Alen (620) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,179 (1918) | #4,179 |
| 1920s | 48 | #2,588 (1925) | #3,634 |
| 1930s | 32 | #2,609 (1939) | #3,199 |
| 1940s | 79 | #2,218 (1948) | #2,635 |
| 1950s | 107 | #2,019 (1957) | #2,385 |
| 1960s | 140 | #1,757 (1966) | #2,308 |
| 1970s | 130 | #2,036 (1973) | #2,989 |
| 1980s | 187 | #2,003 (1980) | #2,753 |
| 1990s | 324 | #2,019 (1991) | #2,425 |
| 2000s | 620 | #1,635 (2005) | #2,014 |
| 2010s | 443 | #2,457 (2015) | #2,767 |
| 2020s | 256 | #2,559 (2024) | #2,915 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alen in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 39,761 of them was named Alen, which outranked 80.0% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,775Zaedyn45
- #2,775Zaxton45
- #2,775Zayyan45
- #2,819Alen44
- #2,819Ahsan44
- #2,819Aleksandr44
- #2,819Alfie44
- #2,862Aceson43
- #2,862Aeson43
- #2,862Akira43
Tied with 42 names at #2,819; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.