Meaning not yet researched.
Alen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,635 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,635 in 2005; #3,244 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,244 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #1,635.
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Alen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,635 in 2005 · most boys in one year: 83 (2005).
In 2025, 36 US boys were named Alen, making it the 3,244th most common boys’ name of the year, down 681 places from #2,563 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 52 boys named Alen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,635, reached in 2005. That year also had the most boys given the name: 83. For comparison, it was #2,458 in 2015 and #2,774 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alen in 97 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 5 babies. In all, 2,371 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 620 babies named Alen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 408 US boys were named Alen; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,447 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Aileen (37,642 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 Alen in the open dataset we use.
Alen is listed as a nickname for Jalen.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 36 | #3,244 |
| 2024 | — | — | 52 | #2,563 |
| 2023 | — | — | 39 | #3,120 |
| 2022 | — | — | 45 | #2,831 |
| 2021 | — | — | 44 | #2,821 |
| 2020 | — | — | 40 | #2,928 |
| 2019 | — | — | 31 | #3,573 |
| 2018 | — | — | 35 | #3,246 |
| 2017 | — | — | 38 | #3,073 |
| 2016 | — | — | 48 | #2,588 |
| 2015 | — | — | 51 | #2,458 |
| 2014 | — | — | 51 | #2,463 |
| 2013 | — | — | 47 | #2,564 |
| 2012 | — | — | 49 | #2,518 |
| 2011 | — | — | 46 | #2,629 |
| 2010 | — | — | 47 | #2,580 |
| 2009 | — | — | 49 | #2,560 |
| 2008 | — | — | 60 | #2,208 |
| 2007 | — | — | 71 | #1,973 |
| 2006 | — | — | 62 | #2,102 |
| 2005 | — | — | 83 | #1,635 |
| 2004 | — | — | 68 | #1,815 |
| 2003 | — | — | 62 | #1,886 |
| 2002 | — | — | 43 | #2,375 |
| 2001 | — | — | 63 | #1,779 |
| 2000 | — | — | 59 | #1,815 |
| 1999 | — | — | 38 | #2,349 |
| 1998 | — | — | 38 | #2,312 |
| 1997 | — | — | 34 | #2,397 |
| 1996 | — | — | 38 | #2,184 |
| 1995 | — | — | 25 | #2,849 |
| 1994 | — | — | 27 | #2,687 |
| 1993 | — | — | 27 | #2,642 |
| 1992 | — | — | 36 | #2,128 |
| 1991 | — | — | 37 | #2,020 |
| 1990 | — | — | 24 | #2,698 |
| 1989 | — | — | 20 | #2,991 |
| 1988 | — | — | 22 | #2,599 |
| 1987 | — | — | 17 | #2,948 |
| 1986 | — | — | 22 | #2,430 |
| 1985 | — | — | 16 | #2,946 |
| 1984 | — | — | 12 | #3,463 |
| 1983 | — | — | 19 | #2,494 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,110 |
| 1981 | — | — | 18 | #2,569 |
| 1980 | — | — | 27 | #2,003 |
| 1979 | — | — | 18 | #2,571 |
| 1978 | — | — | 10 | #3,620 |
| 1977 | — | — | 11 | #3,393 |
| 1976 | — | — | 16 | #2,603 |
| 1975 | — | — | 7 | #4,325 |
| 1974 | — | — | 14 | #2,675 |
| 1973 | — | — | 20 | #2,036 |
| 1972 | — | — | 12 | #2,823 |
| 1971 | — | — | 12 | #2,818 |
| 1970 | — | — | 10 | #3,074 |
| 1969 | — | — | 9 | #3,069 |
| 1968 | — | — | 8 | #3,110 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,763 |
| 1966 | — | — | 19 | #1,757 |
| 1965 | — | — | 13 | #2,271 |
| 1964 | — | — | 17 | #1,975 |
| 1963 | — | — | 14 | #2,201 |
| 1962 | — | — | 17 | #1,964 |
| 1961 | — | — | 18 | #1,950 |
| 1960 | — | — | 16 | #2,042 |
| 1959 | — | — | 13 | #2,296 |
| 1958 | — | — | 12 | #2,374 |
| 1957 | — | — | 16 | #2,020 |
| 1956 | — | — | 15 | #2,091 |
| 1955 | — | — | 10 | #2,561 |
| 1954 | — | — | 13 | #2,208 |
| 1953 | — | — | 8 | #2,908 |
| 1951 | — | — | 12 | #2,247 |
| 1950 | — | — | 8 | #2,774 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,026 |
| 1948 | — | — | 12 | #2,220 |
| 1947 | — | — | 10 | #2,502 |
| 1946 | — | — | 10 | #2,404 |
| 1945 | — | — | 8 | #2,574 |
| 1944 | — | — | 10 | #2,311 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,575 |
| 1941 | — | — | 8 | #2,659 |
| 1940 | — | — | 9 | #2,480 |
| 1939 | — | — | 8 | #2,614 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,532 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,155 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,721 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,007 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,160 |
| 1926 | — | — | 8 | #3,140 |
| 1925 | — | — | 11 | #2,591 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,511 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,247 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,535 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,299 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,196 |
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).