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Allan

Barely 950 Polish men carry it, and it's fading fast: most people here have never met one. The Celtic root is uncertain, pointing loosely to "handsome" or "harmony".

Allan Pronunciation

Allan is pronounced AHL-lahn (/ˈallan/).

Alive in 2025
949
Newborns 2025
2
National rank
#985

What Allan means

Where Allan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Allan grew from Celtic soil. The name reached England with Breton lords who followed William the Conqueror in 1066, and one of them, Alan Rufus, became among the richest men in medieval England. Scholars trace its sense to "handsome" or to "harmony". The older meaning stays uncertain.

The double-l spelling became an English signature, favoured in Scotland and the northern counties before it settled as a given name in its own right. It travelled well. Edgar Allan Poe carried it as a middle name, taken from the Richmond merchant John Allan who raised him.

In Poland the sense lands as piękny, harmonijny, a promise of good looks and an even temper. A boy called Allan on a school register still reads as slightly foreign, English in flavour, and that is part of its appeal. The Celtic origin stays.

How many people are named Allan

1 in 22493 men in Poland is named Allan. 949 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #985 among male names.

People with the name Allan 2019 → 2025
949 +213 since 2019
2020 756 +20
2021 784 +28
2022 827 +43
2023 865 +38
2024 906 +41
2025 949 +43

Allan's popularity over time

2 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1438 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2003. Still the #985 name among living men, even as it slips to #1438 among newborns.

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2 newborns with the name Allan in 2025
national rank #1438 that year

Where parents choose Allan

Allan is most popular in Pomeranian, 389% above the national average (3 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Łódź (+279%) and Lesser Poland (+112%).

Chosen most
  • Pomeranian
    +389%
    1 in 49,107 babies
  • Łódź
    +279%
    1 in 63,359 babies
  • Lesser Poland
    +112%
    1 in 113,458 babies

Allan as a middle name

Allan is a first name for 949 men in Poland and a middle name for another 206, an 82/18 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 478th, between Henrique (208) and Jason (206).

As a first name
949
As a middle name
206
first name 82% middle name 18%
Middle-name ranking men

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