# Allyn (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/allyn/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,138 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,223 / 1,915 (37% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 22 | 5,949 |
| 2012 | 26 | 5,264 |
| 2013 | 19 | 6,479 |
| 2014 | 18 | 6,731 |
| 2015 | 21 | 6,041 |
| 2016 | 12 | 8,915 |
| 2017 | 6 | 14,250 |
| 2018 | 10 | 9,859 |
| 2019 | 7 | 12,522 |
| 2020 | 10 | 9,590 |
| 2021 | 10 | 9,605 |
| 2022 | 10 | 9,710 |
| 2023 | 9 | 10,365 |
| 2024 | 7 | 12,237 |
| 2025 | 7 | 12,001 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 12 | 6,638 |
| 2008 | 6 | 11,102 |
| 2009 | 15 | 5,812 |
| 2010 | 11 | 7,101 |
| 2011 | 5 | 12,370 |
| 2012 | 9 | 8,187 |
| 2013 | 14 | 5,935 |
| 2014 | 8 | 8,820 |
| 2015 | 7 | 9,621 |
| 2016 | 11 | 7,168 |
| 2017 | 7 | 9,742 |
| 2019 | 10 | 7,674 |
| 2022 | 5 | 12,446 |
| 2023 | 5 | 12,336 |
| 2024 | 8 | 9,027 |

## People named Allyn

- Allyn Joslyn, actor (1901–1981)
- Allyn Ann McLerie, American actress, singer and dancer (1926–2018)
- Allyn Condon, British sprinter and bobsledder
- Allyn Ferguson, American composer (1924-2010)
- Wayne Allyn Root, American political commentator (born 1961)

## 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.