How Many People Are Named Allan?
people named Allan are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 5,996 people in the US has this name
Based on 96,711 babies named Allan in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
2,192 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of ALAN. The American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) got his middle name from the surname of the parents who adopted him.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Allan in English. Counting Allan and these spellings together, about 493,661 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Allan (99.7%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Allan alive today is about 53 years old, and 49% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 34 and 72 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Allan first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1947, to 2,192 babies. In 2025, 223 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Allan has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #115, in 1940. In 2025 it ranked #1,013.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,013 |
| Best rank | #115 (1940) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #131 in the 1940s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Allan alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Allan were born in California than in any other state: about 7,028 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Allan was given 2.4 times as often in North Dakota, 2.1 times in Hawaii and 2 times in Minnesota.
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