Alen

#3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births

Peak · boys
2005 · 83 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,371
since 1918

Alen over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Alen has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201962peak #1,635, 2005boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#3,24036
2024#2,55952
2023#3,11739
2022#2,83045
2021#2,81944
2020#2,92540
2019#3,57131
2018#3,24035
2017#3,07138
2016#2,58748
2015#2,45751
2014#2,46151
2013#2,56247
2012#2,51749
2011#2,62646
2010#2,57947
2009#2,56049
2008#2,20760
2007#1,97271
2006#2,10262
2005#1,63583
2004#1,81568
2003#1,88562
2002#2,37243
2001#1,77763
2000#1,81559
1999#2,34738
1998#2,31238
1997#2,39634
1996#2,18338
1995#2,84725
1994#2,68527
1993#2,64127
1992#2,12836
1991#2,01937
1990#2,69524
1989#2,98920
1988#2,59922
1987#2,94217
1986#2,42922
1985#2,94216
1984#3,45912
1983#2,49319
1982#3,10814
1981#2,56918
1980#2,00327
1979#2,56818
1978#3,61410
1977#3,38611
1976#2,60116
1975#4,3097
1974#2,67414
1973#2,03620
1972#2,81912
1971#2,81312
1970#3,07110
1969#3,0629
1968#3,1078
1967#2,7609
1966#1,75719
1965#2,27013
1964#1,97517
1963#2,20014
1962#1,96217
1961#1,94818
1960#2,04216
1959#2,29513
1958#2,37012
1957#2,01916
1956#2,09115
1955#2,55810
1954#2,20713
1953#2,9058
1952—
1951#2,24612
1950#2,7708
1949#3,0197
1948#2,21812
1947#2,49810
1946#2,40310
1945#2,5748
1944#2,30910
1943—
1942#3,5605
1941#2,6568
1940#2,4789
1939#2,6098
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1937#3,5185
1936#3,1476
1935#2,7198
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1930#4,0015
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1928#4,1515
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1926#3,1398
1925#2,58811
1924#3,5057
1923#4,2395
1922#3,5327
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1920#4,2865
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1918#4,1795
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First appearance
1918

The first year at least five boys were named Alen! It came in at #4,179, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1918–1921, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Alen is popular in 1962

No state had 5 or more boys named Alen in 1962, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Alen
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 681 spots since 2024 (#2,559 → #3,240)
  • 315 spots since 2020 (#2,925 → #3,240)
  • 783 spots since 2015 (#2,457 → #3,240)
Rise & fade · boys
87 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1918
  • Peaked 2005 at #1,635 (83 births)
  • Births halved by 2017, 12 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 24,064
  • Highest: 1 in 24,064 boys born in 2005 were named Alen (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 47,447 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 26.1% of all boys named Alen (620) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s5#4,179 (1918)#4,179
1920s48#2,588 (1925)#3,634
1930s32#2,609 (1939)#3,199
1940s79#2,218 (1948)#2,635
1950s107#2,019 (1957)#2,385
1960s140#1,757 (1966)#2,308
1970s130#2,036 (1973)#2,989
1980s187#2,003 (1980)#2,753
1990s324#2,019 (1991)#2,425
2000s620#1,635 (2005)#2,014
2010s443#2,457 (2015)#2,767
2020s256#2,559 (2024)#2,915

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Alen in 1962

boys
#1,962
17 births · 1 in 121,692 boys

Top boys' names in 1962

  1. #1Michael85,059
  2. #2David81,337
  3. #3John78,427
  4. #4James72,555
  5. #5Robert70,199
  6. #6Mark53,520
  7. #7William44,853
  8. #8Richard39,422
  9. #9Thomas36,529
  10. #10Jeffrey33,537
  11. #1,962Alen17
More about 1962

boys

2,068,772 boys got a published name in 1962; 1 in 121,692 of them was named Alen, which outranked 57.6% of the 4,631 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alen
  1. #1,896Vinny18
  2. #1,896Zackary18
  3. #1,896Zoltan18
  4. #1,962Alen17
  5. #1,962Agapito17
  6. #1,962Albino17
  7. #1,962Anita17
  8. #2,035Acie16
  9. #2,035Adelbert16
  10. #2,035Adrien16

Tied with 72 names at #1,962; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1961
Risers
  1. ↑ 490Ritchie#1,262 → #772
  2. ↑ 353King#1,349 → #996
  3. ↑ 338Arlie#1,322 → #984
  4. ↑ 250Robb#1,052 → #802
  5. ↑ 243Pernell#928 → #685
Fallers
  1. ↓ 351Mariano#928 → #1,279
  2. ↓ 349Michal#910 → #1,259
  3. ↓ 337Loran#958 → #1,295
  4. ↓ 292Sid#967 → #1,259
  5. ↓ 275Lorenza#940 → #1,215

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1962 →