Meaning not yet researched.
Alain: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 44 in 2025. Its best rank was #998 in 1985.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #998 in 1985; #2,836 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alain in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,836 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1985, at #998.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Alain: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 44 boys in 2025. Peak: #998 in 1985 · most boys in one year: 92 (1988).
In 2025, 44 US boys were named Alain, making it the 2,836th most common boys’ name of the year, up 383 places from #3,219 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 37 boys named Alain in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #998, reached in 1985. The most boys given the name in a single year was 92, in 1988. For comparison, it was #2,301 in 2015 and #1,701 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alain in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1942 with 5 babies. In all, 3,986 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 738 babies named Alain.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 496 US boys were named Alain; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 61. In 2025 that was about 1 in 38,820 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alain ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,191 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alan (364,389 babies since 1880), Allen (273,662 babies since 1880), Allan (96,711 babies since 1880) and Aylin (16,935 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Alain in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 10 | #1,191 | #1,184 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,557 | #1,247 |
| California | 5 | #2,485 | #2,287 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 44 | #2,836 |
| 2024 | — | — | 37 | #3,219 |
| 2023 | — | — | 51 | #2,579 |
| 2022 | — | — | 49 | #2,675 |
| 2021 | — | — | 47 | #2,695 |
| 2020 | — | — | 48 | #2,620 |
| 2019 | — | — | 49 | #2,627 |
| 2018 | — | — | 61 | #2,232 |
| 2017 | — | — | 55 | #2,347 |
| 2016 | — | — | 55 | #2,366 |
| 2015 | — | — | 57 | #2,301 |
| 2014 | — | — | 51 | #2,462 |
| 2013 | — | — | 74 | #1,903 |
| 2012 | — | — | 64 | #2,104 |
| 2011 | — | — | 63 | #2,105 |
| 2010 | — | — | 54 | #2,355 |
| 2009 | — | — | 57 | #2,289 |
| 2008 | — | — | 61 | #2,186 |
| 2007 | — | — | 68 | #2,036 |
| 2006 | — | — | 73 | #1,856 |
| 2005 | — | — | 72 | #1,802 |
| 2004 | — | — | 60 | #1,990 |
| 2003 | — | — | 81 | #1,562 |
| 2002 | — | — | 63 | #1,817 |
| 2001 | — | — | 67 | #1,711 |
| 2000 | — | — | 54 | #1,927 |
| 1999 | — | — | 60 | #1,720 |
| 1998 | — | — | 59 | #1,720 |
| 1997 | — | — | 67 | #1,535 |
| 1996 | — | — | 62 | #1,586 |
| 1995 | — | — | 69 | #1,430 |
| 1994 | — | — | 51 | #1,734 |
| 1993 | — | — | 81 | #1,261 |
| 1992 | — | — | 71 | #1,340 |
| 1991 | — | — | 79 | #1,255 |
| 1990 | — | — | 77 | #1,259 |
| 1989 | — | — | 80 | #1,197 |
| 1988 | — | — | 92 | #1,023 |
| 1987 | — | — | 89 | #1,004 |
| 1986 | — | — | 80 | #1,041 |
| 1985 | — | — | 83 | #998 |
| 1984 | — | — | 74 | #1,033 |
| 1983 | — | — | 70 | #1,059 |
| 1982 | — | — | 69 | #1,096 |
| 1981 | — | — | 52 | #1,271 |
| 1980 | — | — | 49 | #1,343 |
| 1979 | — | — | 36 | #1,598 |
| 1978 | — | — | 43 | #1,410 |
| 1977 | — | — | 47 | #1,312 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,175 | 66 | #1,019 |
| 1975 | — | — | 50 | #1,191 |
| 1974 | — | — | 45 | #1,244 |
| 1973 | — | — | 39 | #1,329 |
| 1972 | — | — | 42 | #1,285 |
| 1971 | — | — | 46 | #1,215 |
| 1970 | — | — | 43 | #1,261 |
| 1969 | — | — | 42 | #1,221 |
| 1968 | — | — | 35 | #1,283 |
| 1967 | — | — | 46 | #1,088 |
| 1966 | — | — | 32 | #1,345 |
| 1965 | — | — | 32 | #1,360 |
| 1964 | — | — | 47 | #1,114 |
| 1963 | — | — | 37 | #1,280 |
| 1962 | — | — | 35 | #1,312 |
| 1961 | — | — | 23 | #1,687 |
| 1960 | — | — | 29 | #1,486 |
| 1959 | — | — | 25 | #1,588 |
| 1958 | — | — | 21 | #1,725 |
| 1957 | — | — | 23 | #1,673 |
| 1956 | — | — | 24 | #1,609 |
| 1955 | — | — | 15 | #2,049 |
| 1954 | — | — | 15 | #2,044 |
| 1953 | — | — | 22 | #1,631 |
| 1952 | — | — | 6 | #3,376 |
| 1951 | — | — | 13 | #2,136 |
| 1950 | — | — | 19 | #1,701 |
| 1949 | — | — | 11 | #2,339 |
| 1948 | — | — | 12 | #2,219 |
| 1947 | — | — | 12 | #2,252 |
| 1946 | — | — | 8 | #2,691 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,435 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,568 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).