Alain

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Origin: French

Meaning

Alain is widely used as a personal name and is the French form of Alan but also exists in English-speaking countries:

From Wikipedia

Alain first appears in the data in 1956 and has been recorded in 59 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 1985 with 47 babies (rank #290 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Alain

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Alain yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

1,360
Total babies (all years)
59
Years in the data
47
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19564#634
19572#742
19582#765
19596#608
196011#510
19617#601
19629#553
196314#474
196419#423
196519#429
196620#418
196730#343
196845#285
196938#318
197042#309
197139#318
197238#310
197328#348
197425#376
197526#364
197623#397
197715#481
197823#395
197919#450
198028#376
198127#390
198236#334
198330#362
198436#336
198547#290
198637#347
198736#369
198829#420
198925#482
199032#429
199137#387
199228#465
199331#424
199438#383
199531#435
199622#521
199724#502
199827#472
199924#501
200018#586
200111#730
200217#595
200328#458
200415#623
20059#774
200611#705
200719#514
200820#504
200914#612
20109#740
201116#550
201217#520
201313#582
201414#558