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Alen

The boy's name Alen has been in the national records since 1918, with 2,371 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 3,240th. About 2,100 Alens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Alen

By the numbers

Total US births
2,371
Estimated living today
2,100
Median age today
21
Peak year
2005
Best rank
1,635th
Rank in 2025
3,240th
First recorded
1918

How old the living Alens are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,371 babies given the name since 1918, about 2,100 are alive — 90 in every hundred. Roughly 800 of them are children and 130 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 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.

Notable Alens

People named Alen with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Alen is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Alen is most concentrated in California (4.8×), New York (3.0×), Florida (2.0×), Texas (1.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2005

The most popular boys’ names the year Alen peaked:

All the names of 2005

Alen elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Italy boys Alen 545
France boys Alen +1 spelling 375 1,479th
Switzerland boys Alen 333 312th
England and Wales boys Alen 101 1,716th
Belgium boys Alen 51 961st
Poland boys Alen 21 birth registrations 426th
Ireland boys Alen 9 317th

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.

Alen: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Alen 284 0.023% 233rd
French boys Switzerland Alen 38 0.009% 276th
Italian boys Switzerland Alen 11 0.017% 116th

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, Alen is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.04% of children were given it – 41 of them.

Alen: rank by region

In 2013, Alen was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Alen 752 6

In 2019, Alen was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.

Region Spelling Place Children
Małopolskie Alen 220 2
Zachodniopomorskie Alen 158 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.

Alen by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin boys 2017–2023 17 347th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Alen 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 Alen 24 29

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 Alen lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 754 men called Alen 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
Coruña, A Alen 103 0.189 392
Pontevedra Alen 70 0.153 441
Gipuzkoa Alen 48 0.134 561
Lugo Alen 15 0.095 631
Bizkaia Alen 43 0.076 815
Zamora Alen 6 0.073 717

Listed in 31 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 21 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

Alen against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.