Alan
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#191
down −24 places
2025 births
1,915
down −273 births
All-time births
363,313
1% of them in 2025
More common than
100%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1955
- 9,037 births
- Best rank
- #40
- in 1951
- First recorded
- 1882
- #838 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1970
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 143 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 19559,037#43Peak
- 19568,734#44
- 19548,711#43
- 19618,617#51
- 19538,454#43
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #40 in 1951 · peak births 9,037 in 1955
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 100% boys■ 0% girls
363,313 boys · 1,076 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Alan has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.