Alon
Hebrew for "oak tree". In Poland it stays rare: fewer than 500 people carry it, almost all of them men, and hardly any boys have been given it since the mid-2010s.
Alon Pronunciation
Alon is pronounced AH-lon (/ˈalɔn/).
What Alon means
Where Alon comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Alon comes from Hebrew, where the word means oak tree. The name belongs to that language's habit of drawing people from the land itself, and the oak, in Hebrew tradition, stands for strength and long life. In Polish the meaning is plain: dąb.
In Jewish culture the name stays close to that root. It carries no diminutives and no separate feminine form, so a person is simply Alon, the same on a birth record as in conversation. In modern Israel it became a common given name for boys, and you meet grown men and small children who share it.
To be named Alon is to be linked to a tree that Hebrew scripture returns to more than once.
A Polish teacher reading a class register might pause at Alon, an unfamiliar form among the Krzysztofs and Anias. There is no name-day for it in the Polish calendar. The name stays what it started as, the Hebrew word for oak.
How many people are named Alon
1 in 45321 men in Poland is named Alon. 475 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1354 among male names.
Alon's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Alon as a middle name
Alon is a first name for 475 men in Poland and a middle name for another 16, a 97/3 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2284th, between Alcides (16) and Amaru (16).
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#2282 Abubakar16
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#2283 Alcides16
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#2284 Alon16
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#2285 Amaru16
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#2286 Antonino16