The ALAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,372	18551	0.001	5
United States (1880 census)	83	35575	0	2
Change since 1880	+1289	+17024	+N/A	+3
Other Countries
Australia	30	38221	0	2
United Kingdom	212	15839	0	5

Top States for ALAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	209	9870	0.001	6
Florida	118	11995	0.001	7
New York	104	14260	0.001	5
Michigan	85	11623	0.001	9
Texas	70	16794	0.000	3
Top States for ALAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	8	11258	0.001	11
Hawaii	11	7678	0.001	9
Washington DC	5	8536	0.001	9
Michigan	85	11623	0.001	9
Wyoming	4	13389	0.001	8

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ALAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ALAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ALAN in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ALAN by picking someone at random in South Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ALAN

Region of origin: Europe

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Ethnic distribution of ALAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	834	60.79
Black/African American	263	19.17
White (Hispanic)	120	8.75
Mixed Race	69	5.03
Asian/Pacific	68	4.96
Native American/Alaskan	18	1.31

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ALAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to ALAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ALAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.