Alen
Barely 160 people in Poland carry it, nearly all men, so meeting an Alen is memorable. The count stays small but climbs: a few more newborn boys take it each recent year. Greek at root, from a word for "little rock", also read as "handsome".
Alen Pronunciation
Alen is pronounced AH-len (/ˈalɛn/).
What Alen means
Where Alen comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Alen comes from Greek, where its sense of little rock ties it to petra, the word for stone. That is the first meaning Polish dictionaries list: skała, something small and solid. The name stays short. Two syllables, easy to call across a room.
The second meaning, handsome, arrived later. It settled on the name as an association rather than its literal root, the way qualities often drift toward a sound people already like. Polish renders it piękny.
In a school register the name sits plainly, with no diminutive softening it and no variant beside it. Alen has no standard imieniny fixed in the Polish calendar, so a child might borrow a nearby date or skip the custom. What holds steady is the first sense: little rock.
How many people are named Alen
1 in 133414 men in Poland is named Alen. 162 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2533 among male names.
Alen's popularity over time
3 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1168 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2023.
Where parents choose Alen
Alen is most popular in West Pomeranian, 1180% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+376%).
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West Pomeranian
+1,180%1 in 42,213 babies
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Lesser Poland
+376%1 in 113,458 babies
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West Pomeranian+1,180% 2 born1 in 42,213 babies+1,180%
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Lesser Poland+376% 2 born1 in 113,458 babies+376%
Alen as a middle name
Alen is a first name for 162 men in Poland and a middle name for another 24, an 87/13 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1736th, between Zion (25) and Alperen (24).
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#1734 Yi̇ği̇t25
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#1735 Zion25
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#1736 Alen24
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#1737 Alperen24
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#1738 Anesu24