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Alann

Gender
Boy
Say it
AL-an
Origin
Celtic
US rank, 2025
#9,710 for boys

Alann is a boys' name of Celtic origin. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).

What does Alann mean?

Celtic: spelling of Alan; Breton, brought to England by the Normans

Brought to England by Bretons who came with William the Conqueror; the meaning is uncertain.

Meaning borrowed from Alan. More on Wiktionary.

Is Alann a girl's or a boy's name?

Alann is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Alann in the US?

Rank in 2025
#9,710among boys
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 240,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Alann, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,548th. Its busiest year was 2003, with 12 boys. It first appears in the records in 1993.

Half of all the boys named Alann in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,712 boys in the US were given Alann or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #149, up from #9,710 for this spelling alone.

1993Busiest: 12 in 20032025
Alann in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20257#9,710
20245#12,341
20235#12,232
20229#8,293
20210–
20207#9,548
20190–
20187#9,664
201710#7,542
20165#12,180
20150–
20140–
20130–
20120–
20110–
20109#8,133
20090–
20086#11,030
20077#9,782
20060–
20055#11,464
20045#11,348
200312#5,870
20025#10,660
200110#6,438
20000–
19990–
19980–
19970–
19960–
19950–
19940–
19936#7,631

Nicknames for Alann

Names like Alann

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Alann

Names related to Alann

More Celtic names

Every Celtic name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Alann: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alann, updated 20 October 2026.