Alon
Alon was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,215 among boys’ names; 1,212 Americans have been recorded with it since 1926 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Alon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 13 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alon is “a male given name from Hebrew, variant of Elon.”
Two main origins:
Borrowed from Hebrew אַלּוֹן (alon, “oak tree”).
Borrowed from Tagalog Alon; this surname is predominantly found in Bangsamoro region.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alon?
#5,215 among boys’ names, 2025
Alon rose from #6,685 in 2015 to #5,215 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.3 to 10.5 per million.
33 babies in 2008, the peak
Alon peaked in 2008, when 33 babies were given it (27 boys, #3,825 among boys’ names). The 18 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,215 | 10.5 |
| 2024 | 22 | #4,569 | 12.8 |
| 2023 | 30 | #3,714 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 33 | #3,466 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,632 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,428 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,641 | 11.7 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,529 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 24 | #4,224 | 13.0 |
| 2016 | 31 | #3,526 | 16.3 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #6,685 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,873 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,320 | 11.6 |
| 2012 | 19 | #4,863 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 14 | #5,957 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,685 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 26 | #3,923 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 27 | #3,825 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 29 | #3,593 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 30 | #3,451 | 14.6 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,449 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 24 | #3,735 | 12.1 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,115 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,504 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,125 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 20 | #3,919 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,938 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,850 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,155 | 12.2 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,200 | 11.6 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,856 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,392 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 31 | #2,395 | 15.8 |
| 1992 | 20 | #3,218 | 10.0 |
| 1991 | 25 | #2,679 | 12.4 |
| 1990 | 21 | #2,949 | 10.2 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,782 | 11.0 |
| 1988 | 21 | #2,681 | 11.0 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,835 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,890 | 9.2 |
| 1985 | 17 | #2,830 | 9.2 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,707 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,632 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,596 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,901 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,846 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,379 | 11.6 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,571 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,791 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,023 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 18 | #2,362 | 11.5 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,676 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 14 | #2,607 | 9.0 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,630 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,819 | 6.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,529 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,415 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,112 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,786 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,322 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,648 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,359 | 3.3 |
| 1954 | 8 | #2,944 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,698 | 2.8 |
| 1931 | 5 | #3,773 | 4.8 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,215 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Alon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,212 Americans recorded as Alon, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 18 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Alon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alon, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,212 Americans ever recorded as Alon. The median Alon alive today is 25 years old; half are between 13 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 1,688 people named Alon (131 women and girls, 1,557 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,027 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Alon rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 24 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 156 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 285 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 384 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 304 |
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 Alon born?
The states with the most babies named Alon are California, New York and Georgia, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 123 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 123 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Alon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alon is most over-represented in New York: since 1926 it was given 1.5 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 Alon 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, Alon is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 2,822 babies (<1%), again the seventh 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 Alon
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 Alon and names like it
- Compare Alon and AlanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAlon peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alon since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Alon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.