Allan
Allan is a boy's name that peaked in 1947, when it was the 132nd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,012th. About 57,000 Allans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 59.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Allan boys named Allan
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 96,711
- Estimated living today
- 57,000
- Median age today
- 59
- Peak year
- 1947
- Best rank
- 132nd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,012th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 253 / 96,458
How old the living Allans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 96,711 babies given the name since 1880, about 57,000 are alive — 59 in every hundred. Roughly 6,000 of them are children and 23,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1966 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Celtic languages
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Allans
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)American writer and literary critic
- Arno Allan Penzias (1933–2024)German-born American physicist
- Allan McLeod Cormack (1924–1998)American physicist
- Allan Kardec (1804–1869)systematizer of Spiritism
- Allan Simonsen (born 1952)Danish footballer
- Allan Hume (1829–1912)British Ornithologist and Founder of the Indian National Congress
- Allan (born 1991)Brazilian association football player
- Allan Saint-Maximin (born 1997)French footballer
People named Allan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Allan is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Allan is most concentrated in North Dakota (2.9×), Hawaii (2.3×), Minnesota (2.1×), Wisconsin (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1947
The most popular boys’ names the year Allan peaked:
Allan elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Allan | 17,765 | 62nd |
| Scotland boys | Allan | 4,903 | 36th |
| New Zealand boys | Allan | 3,148 | 32nd |
| Norway boys | Allan | 635 | 231st |
| England and Wales boys | Allan | 610 | 489th |
| Poland boys | Allan | 578 birth registrations | 146th |
| Ireland boys | Allan | 552 | 121st |
| Belgium boys | Allan | 523 | 154th |
| Switzerland boys | Allan | 165 | 355th |
| Sweden boys | Allan | 125 | 100th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Allan | 6 | 207th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Allan: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Allan | 36 | 0.003% | 507th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Allan | 127 | 0.029% | 136th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Allan | 2 | 0.003% | 193rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Allan is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.03% of children were given it – 51 of them.
Allan: rank by region
In 2012, Allan was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Allan | 483 | 5 |
In 2024, Allan was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Małopolskie | Allan | 241 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Allan among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Allan | 800 | 9,948 |
Among boys in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 9,948 who carry it, 800 go by it.
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Allan lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 434 men called Allan were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Allan | 54 | 0.054 | 1,235 |
| Málaga | Allan | 40 | 0.046 | 1,175 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Allan | 20 | 0.038 | 2,040 |
| Tarragona | Allan | 15 | 0.034 | 1,601 |
| Palmas, Las | Allan | 17 | 0.029 | 2,459 |
| Barcelona | Allan | 79 | 0.027 | 1,838 |
Listed in 17 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 35 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Allan against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.