Alen — #2553 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Alen

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,335 babies named Alen between 1918 and 2024, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Alen currently holds the #2553 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 83 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 620 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Alen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 346 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Alen in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,335 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.