Allan

Allan is the 3,328th most common surname in the United States, shared by 10,607 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 28,200.

By the numbers

People: 10,607
Rank: 3,328th
How common: 1 in 28,200
Per 100,000: 3.6

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Allan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 85.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Black, not Hispanic 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Allan

Freya Allan (born 2001)English actress
Elizabeth Allan (1910–1990)actress
David Allan (1744–1796)Scottish painter
Allan (born 1997)Brazilian association football player
Jed Allan (1935–2019)American actor
Jani Allan (1952–2023)South African columnist and broadcaster
William Allan (1782–1850)Scottish artist
Tommaso Allan (born 1993)Italian-Scottish rugby union player

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

Surnames like Allan

Also a first name

Allan has been given to 96,711 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1947. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.