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Alen

#3,243 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly noble, through Alan

Alen has been given to 2,371 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #3,243 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 83 recorded.

Babies named Alen, 2025

1 in 92,100

Alen over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alen: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly noble, through Alan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alen means

Alen belongs to the name family reached through Alen → Alan. Its meaning is “noble”.

Origin, language, and formation

Alen is used in English and Serbo-Croatian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,371 boys were recorded with the name Alen between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 83 in 2005; its best national rank was #1,633 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,927 in 2020 to #3,243 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,457 in 2015 to #3,243 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alen?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 92,100
36 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 47,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,243
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alen was born before 2002 — so the typical Alen is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
26.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,207
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 26.1% of all recorded uses (620).

Is Alen rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−680
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−316
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−786
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.4%
Peak was 2005 (83)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,633
2005

Spellings of Alen

Alen is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 7.3% against Alen's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Alen is used

Across 1910–2025, Alen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 104,101 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Iowa1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Alen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alen around the world

Where Alen ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1986–2008
    #698
    in 2008
  • France
    1975–2025
    #2,814
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1947–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Alen

People whose public names include Alen, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Alen in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Alen. Linked forms have their own page here.

AlanAlinAleniAllen

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Alen by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,243
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 316
Best rank ever
#1,633
2005
Peak year
2005
83 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,371
Count in 2025
36

Names similar to Alen

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AlekAlexiAlejoAlexeiCalenTalenAleemDalenAlessioTylenAlemRylenAleksNolenOlenValenHalenLenAleckKalenKylenTaylenWaylenDylen

Names with a curve like Alen

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Alen

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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