Allen
A Germanic name with two readings: "little rock" and "handsome". In Poland it stays rare, carried by only about a hundred people, nearly all of them men.
Allen Pronunciation
Allen is pronounced AHL-len (/ˈallɛn/).
What Allen means
Where Allen comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Allen arrived in English from a Germanic root, and the spelling with the double l marks the English form. The meaning handed down with it is twofold: "little rock" and "handsome". Those senses pull in different directions. One is stone, the other is a face.
The "little rock" reading points back to the old root, the small and solid thing a name can stand on. The sense of "handsome" was attached later, a gloss that grew around the name rather than its first meaning. Allen keeps a single shape in this list. No diminutive, no variant, no feminine turn beside it.
In a Polish szkoła a boy named Allen sits in the register between Polish forms, the double l marking him out on the page. The name reads as English there, an import with an English cultural home. Say it and you hear the stone in it. Allen means little rock.
How many people are named Allen
1 in 220064 men in Poland is named Allen. 101 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3422 among male names.
Allen's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Allen as a middle name
Allen is a first name for 101 men in Poland and a middle name for another 140, a 42/58 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 596th, between Zawisza (141) and Orlando (140).
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#594 Hektor141
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#595 Zawisza141
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#596 Allen140
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#597 Orlando140
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#598 Miłosław139