Alen
Alen was given to 36 boys in 2025, #3,243 among boys’ names; 2,371 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,130 Americans named Alen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alen is “a male given name, variant of Alan.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alen?
#3,243 among boys’ names, 2025
Alen fell from #2,457 in 2015 to #3,243 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 26.6 to 21.1 per million.
83 babies in 2005, the peak
Alen peaked in 2005, when 83 boys were given it, #1,633 among boys’ names. The 36 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,243 | 21.1 |
| 2024 | 52 | #2,563 | 30.2 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,118 | 22.8 |
| 2022 | 45 | #2,829 | 25.8 |
| 2021 | 44 | #2,820 | 25.2 |
| 2020 | 40 | #2,927 | 23.2 |
| 2019 | 31 | #3,570 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 35 | #3,243 | 19.3 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,072 | 20.5 |
| 2016 | 48 | #2,587 | 25.3 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #2,457 | 26.6 |
| 2014 | 51 | #2,461 | 26.6 |
| 2013 | 47 | #2,562 | 24.8 |
| 2012 | 49 | #2,517 | 25.8 |
| 2011 | 46 | #2,628 | 24.2 |
| 2010 | 47 | #2,579 | 24.5 |
| 2009 | 49 | #2,559 | 24.7 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,207 | 29.4 |
| 2007 | 71 | #1,973 | 34.2 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,101 | 30.2 |
| 2005 | 83 | #1,633 | 41.6 |
| 2004 | 68 | #1,812 | 34.3 |
| 2003 | 62 | #1,883 | 31.4 |
| 2002 | 43 | #2,371 | 22.1 |
| 2001 | 63 | #1,775 | 32.4 |
| 2000 | 59 | #1,811 | 30.0 |
| 1999 | 38 | #2,346 | 19.8 |
| 1998 | 38 | #2,309 | 19.9 |
| 1997 | 34 | #2,394 | 18.0 |
| 1996 | 38 | #2,179 | 20.1 |
| 1995 | 25 | #2,844 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,682 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 27 | #2,636 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 36 | #2,123 | 18.0 |
| 1991 | 37 | #2,014 | 18.3 |
| 1990 | 24 | #2,692 | 11.7 |
| 1989 | 20 | #2,985 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,594 | 11.5 |
| 1987 | 17 | #2,944 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,428 | 11.9 |
| 1985 | 16 | #2,943 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,461 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 19 | #2,493 | 10.6 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,109 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,568 | 10.0 |
| 1980 | 27 | #2,003 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,570 | 10.5 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,619 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,391 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 16 | #2,602 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,323 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,673 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 20 | #2,035 | 12.8 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,821 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,816 | 6.8 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,072 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,068 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,109 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,762 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 19 | #1,756 | 10.7 |
| 1965 | 13 | #2,270 | 7.0 |
| 1964 | 17 | #1,974 | 8.5 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,200 | 6.9 |
| 1962 | 17 | #1,963 | 8.2 |
| 1961 | 18 | #1,949 | 8.5 |
| 1960 | 16 | #2,041 | 7.5 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,295 | 6.1 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,373 | 5.7 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,019 | 7.4 |
| 1956 | 15 | #2,090 | 7.1 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,560 | 4.9 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,207 | 6.4 |
| 1953 | 8 | #2,907 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,246 | 6.4 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,773 | 4.5 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,025 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,219 | 6.8 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,501 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 10 | #2,403 | 6.2 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,573 | 5.9 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,310 | 7.3 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,574 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,658 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,480 | 7.8 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,614 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,530 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,154 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,721 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,005 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,158 | 4.5 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,138 | 7.2 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,589 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,510 | 6.2 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,244 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,533 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,297 | 4.7 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,195 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Alen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 97 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alen, and how old are they?
2,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 2,371 Americans ever recorded as Alen. The median Alen alive today is 22 years old; half are between 13 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 3,768 people named Alen (113 women and girls, 3,655 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,938 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 20 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 155 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 190 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 356 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 858 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 553 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Alen born?
The states with the most babies named Alen are California, New York and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #1,834 | 1.2× |
| New York | 6 | #1,583 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,841 | 0.5× |
Where Alen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alen is most over-represented in California: since 1918 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 748,165 babies since 1880, Alen is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 2,822 babies (1.3%), again the sixth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alen and names like it
- Compare Alen and AlanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAlen peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alen since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Alen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.