Alén

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/alen/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Alén is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin ad (“at”) + illinc (“there”). Cognate with Portuguese além.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 88K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 421
  • SISlovenia1 in 513

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Croatia (measured from records)

10,033 people, 2021

Sources
114 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 421 (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Alen in US United States, ES Spain, UY Uruguay.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Latin ad (“at”) + illinc (“there”). Cognate with Portuguese além.

Sources 1

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Alén counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Alén is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia—10,0331 in 42110K—1
SI Slovenia—4,1011 in 5134.1K—11
US United States—3,7681 in 88K3.7KAlen114
SE Sweden—8691 in 12K869—9
ES Spain—7541 in 66K1KAlen76
AL Albania—2871 in 11K286——
DK Denmark—2031 in 29K203——
UY Uruguay#468≈2 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Alen18

10,033 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Alén is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Finland

    Also written Alen

  • Danish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States

    Also written Alen

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Alen, Ålen

  • French given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Philippines

    Also written Alen, Alleins, Alën, Alèn, Âlen

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Alen

  • Czech given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States, Slovenia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Alen, Álen

10 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Alén is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Galician, the otherworld

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Frantzisko Lopez, b. 1866Luciano García Alén, b. 1928José Lara Alén, b. 1933Markku Alén, b. 1949Markku Alén, b. 1951Raimo Alén, b. 1951Daniel González Alén, b. 1951Juha Alén, b. 1981Andrei Alén, b. 1981

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Alén,Hi Alén, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Alén
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2#56,445

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Alén mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin ad (“at”) + illinc (“there”). Cognate with Portuguese além. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Alén?
A machine transcription gives /alen/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Alén a male or female name?
Alén is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Alén have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Alén, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Alén most common?
Alén is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 421 people carrying it.
How common is the name Alén?
In Croatia, the national register counted 10,033 people named Alén in 2021, about 1 in 421 residents.
How common is Alén compared with other names?
In Uruguay, Alén is the 468th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Alén” — the 468th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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