Allyn
Allyn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 780th, in 1942.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 194671 births
- Best rank
- #780in 1942
- Since 1908
- 5,131people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,223 boys have been named Allyn in the United States since 1908, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1946, with 71 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1953, and the 1940s alone account for 17%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Allyn is used for both sexes: 37% of its bearers are girls (1,908), most of them born around 1951.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Allyn | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 6 | |
| 1910s | 169 | |
| 1920s | 279 | |
| 1930s | 429 | |
| 1940s | 559 | |
| 1950s | 500 | |
| 1960s | 375 | |
| 1970s | 222 | |
| 1980s | 278 | |
| 1990s | 190 | |
| 2000s | 116 | |
| 2010s | 82 | |
| 2020s | 18 |
In 1946, its biggest year
Allyn was the 785th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1946 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1946.
Names that rose and fell with Allyn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Glynnpeak 1950
- Curtisspeak 1959
- Wendelpeak 1940
- Lawrancepeak 1950
- Deltonpeak 1933
- Alfonzapeak 1957
- Theodispeak 1955
- Johnneypeak 1947
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.