Meaning and history
Allan is a variant of Alan 1. The American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) received Allan as his middle name from the surname of the couple who adopted him.
20062006: 514 births, rank #504
2007: 506 births, rank #518
2008: 478 births, rank #550
2009: 471 births, rank #560
2010: 403 births, rank #614
20112011: 350 births, rank #675
2012: 340 births, rank #695
2013: 370 births, rank #656
2014: 333 births, rank #723
2015: 392 births, rank #659
20162016: 329 births, rank #741
2017: 301 births, rank #777
2018: 294 births, rank #782
2019: 280 births, rank #813
2020: 278 births, rank #826
20212021: 283 births, rank #840
2022: 301 births, rank #824
2023: 302 births, rank #813
2024: 283 births, rank #857
20252025: 223 births, rank #1,012
Allan moved from #813 to #857 for boys between 2023 and 2024. Its highest annual birth count came in 1947, with 2,187 births.