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Alahia vs Alan

American parents have registered 364,389 Alans since 1880, against 538 Alahias. Alan is still ahead, with 1,915 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alahia against Alan, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alahia Alan

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Alan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Alahia had 113 and Alan had 1,915.

Side by side

  Alahia Alan
Total US births 538364,389
Most in one year 1219,052
Babies in 2025 1131,915
Estimated living today 540270,000
Median age today 255
Peak year 20241955
Best rank 1,681st girls43rd boys
Rank in 2025 1,777th191st
First recorded 20151882
Girls / boys 538 / 01,076 / 363,313

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Alans alive today are over 55; half the Alahias are over 2. That is 53 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Alahia and Alan.