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Allene

#11,995 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Allene has been given to 8,767 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #11,995 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1926, with 317 recorded.

Babies named Allene, 2025

1 in 474,000

Allene over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Allene: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Allene means

Allene is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Allene is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,762 girls were recorded with the name Allene between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 317 in 1926; its best national rank was #375 in 1912.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #15,224 in 2020 to #11,995 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #16,562 in 2015 to #11,995 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Allene between 1927 and 1927. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1927; its best national rank was #4,216 in 1927.

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 Allene?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,995
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Allene sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Allene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Allenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Allene was born before 1927 — so the typical Allene is around 98 today.

Median birth year
1927
About 98 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
28.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,362
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 28.6% of all recorded uses (2,505).

Is Allene 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,229
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,567
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.2%
Peak was 1926 (317)
Years since peak
99
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#375
1912

Spellings of Allene

Allene is not the most common spelling — Ellen is, with 24.1% against Allene's 0.77%.

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 Allene is used

Across 1910–2025, Allene was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 5,556 girls, against 1 in 25,410 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

018 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 5,556
  2. 2Georgia1 in 6,250
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 7,143
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 7,692
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 7,692
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 11,111
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 11,111
  8. 8Missouri1 in 12,500

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Allene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Allene around the world

Where Allene 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.

  • South Australia
    1961–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Allene

People whose public names include Allene, 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.

Allene in other languages

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

AleneAllenaAllineEllene

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

Allene by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,995
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,229
Best rank ever
#375
1912
Peak year
1926
317 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,762
Count in 2025
7

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,216
1927
Peak year
1927
5 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
1927
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Allene

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

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Names with a curve like Allene

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

MarjoryLorineFlorineHarrietteMaurineMyrtisAdellDorrisMargaretteDorthaWildaBeryl

Sibling names for Allene

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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