Allen
4
Babies in 2024
-60%
10-year change
2007
Peak · 22
-75%
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 Allen
Allen peaked among UK boys' names in the late 2000s (22 babies in 2007) and has remained in active use — 4 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Allen reached its peak in 2007, when 22 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,079 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 4 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 265 boys have been officially registered with the name Allen in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 91 boys were registered with the name, starting from 10 in 2014 and ending at 4 in 2024.