Allan

Where Allan comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Allan.

  • Celtic
Allan through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #381 among boys, with 20 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1924
    Allan McLeod Cormack born
    American physicist
  3. 1940
    Peak, #115
    1,608 babies named Allan, its best rank.
  4. 1952
    Allan Simonsen born
    Danish footballer
  5. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #272.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Celtic languages, a less common spelling of Alan.
Namesakes
  • Allan McLeod Cormack · American physicist, 1924–1998
  • Allan Simonsen · Danish footballer, born 1952
  • 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, born 1997

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.