Alen
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name related to Alexander
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/æɫən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name.
- RURussia≈1 in 30as Елена(inferred from the name graph)
- BYBelarus≈1 in 35as Елена
- GRGreece1 in 39as Ελένη
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Alen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #2 (measured from records)
- 10 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 644 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30 (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,700,000 named Елена, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Russia, est., as Елена
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
20 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Елена in RU Russia, BY Belarus, FI Finland, Helen in US United States, Олена in UA Ukraine and Helena in BR Brazil.
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)
a male given name related to Alexander
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alen 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #2 | ≈4,700,000 est. | ≈1 in 30 | #3 | Елена | 309 |
| UA Ukraine | #2 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 41 | listed | Олена | 174 |
| BR Brazil | #17 | 366,186as Helena | 1 in 578 | 366K | Helena | 227 |
| US United States | #26 | 284,872as Alan | 1 in 1.2K | 483K | Helen | 644 |
| GR Greece | #9 | 272,590as Ελένη | 1 in 39 | 520K | Ελενη | 198 |
| BY Belarus | #1 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 35 | 39 | Елена | 81 |
| FI Finland | #1 | 117,524as Helena | 1 in 47 | 175K | Елена | 116 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); ELSTAT — population given names; According to a survey conducted by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), the most popular male and female names i; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Alen is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Alen är en sydslavisk form av Alan (→ Allan).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Danish, cubit, ell (a unit of length of varying value, in Denmark 62.8 cm (equal to 2 feet) until 1907)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of ale
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite singular of al
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, past participle of alan
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)
- Alain Berbérianb. 1953FRnot in their usual nameFrench filmmaker (1953–2017)
- Alen Bokšićb. 1970HRCroatian footballer
- Alen Stajcicb. 1973AUAustralian football coach (born 1973)
- Alen Avdićb. 1977BABosnian-Herzegovinian footballer (born 1977)
- Alen Simonyanb. 1980AMArmenian politician (born 1980)
- Alan Stevanovićb. 1991CHnot in their usual nameSerbian association football player (born 1991)
- Alen Omićb. 1992BASlovenian basketball player (born 1992)
- Alen Mašovićb. 1994RSSerbian association football player
- Alen Halilovićb. 1996HRCroatian association football player
- Alen Smailagićb. 2000RSSerbian basketball player (born 2000)
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)
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 84 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 484 | #47,272 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 484 | #42,217 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 468 | #3,654 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 387 | #53,419 |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Alen?
- A machine transcription gives /æɫən/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Alen mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name related to Alexander Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Alen?
- In the etymology graph, Alan, Allan and Alain are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Alen?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 366,186 people named Helena in 2022, about 1 in 578 residents.
- How common is Alen compared with other names?
- In Russia, Alen is the 2nd most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
- Is Alen a male or female name?
- Alen is a female 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 Alen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 million people named Елена in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
What do you want to know about Alen?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Alen” — the 2nd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.