# Allan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/allan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Alan, Allen, Alen |
| US babies named this | 96,711 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 96,458 / 253 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 610, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 6 | 7,085 |
| 1971 | 5 | 8,361 |
| 1973 | 5 | 8,455 |
| 1974 | 5 | 8,814 |
| 1977 | 5 | 9,685 |
| 1978 | 5 | 9,789 |
| 1979 | 5 | 10,243 |
| 1982 | 6 | 9,263 |
| 1983 | 5 | 10,315 |
| 1984 | 6 | 9,172 |
| 1985 | 6 | 9,340 |
| 1986 | 5 | 10,956 |
| 1987 | 6 | 9,868 |
| 1989 | 7 | 9,706 |
| 1994 | 5 | 13,516 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 350 | 675 |
| 2012 | 340 | 695 |
| 2013 | 370 | 656 |
| 2014 | 333 | 723 |
| 2015 | 392 | 659 |
| 2016 | 329 | 742 |
| 2017 | 301 | 777 |
| 2018 | 294 | 782 |
| 2019 | 280 | 813 |
| 2020 | 278 | 826 |
| 2021 | 283 | 840 |
| 2022 | 301 | 824 |
| 2023 | 302 | 813 |
| 2024 | 283 | 857 |
| 2025 | 223 | 1,013 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 31 | 929 |
| 2012 | 23 | 1,152 |
| 2013 | 18 | 1,339 |
| 2014 | 22 | 1,178 |
| 2015 | 18 | 1,380 |
| 2016 | 17 | 1,498 |
| 2017 | 13 | 1,812 |
| 2018 | 8 | 2,445 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,266 |
| 2020 | 11 | 1,935 |
| 2021 | 12 | 1,860 |
| 2022 | 11 | 2,018 |
| 2023 | 13 | 1,799 |
| 2024 | 12 | 1,951 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3,684 |

## People named Allan

- Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
- Arno Allan Penzias, German-born American physicist
- Allan McLeod Cormack, American physicist (1924-1998)
- Allan Simonsen, Danish footballer
- Allan Hume, British Ornithologist and Founder of the Indian National Congress (1829–1912)
- Allan, Brazilian association football player (born 1991)
- Allan Saint-Maximin, French footballer
- Allan Nyom, Cameroonian footballer
- Allan Holdsworth, British musician (1946–2017)
- Allan Bloom, American philosopher, classicist, and academician (1930–1992)
- Allan McNish, British racing driver
- Allan Sandage, American astronomer (1926-2010)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.