Alan
64
Babies in 2024
-79%
10-year change
2015
Peak · 346
-26%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Alan
Alan has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 64 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 79% on a decade earlier.
Alan reached its peak in 2015, when 346 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #170 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 18% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 5,398 boys have been officially registered with the name Alan in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 2,072 boys were registered with the name, starting from 302 in 2014 and ending at 64 in 2024.