Given name & surname
Allin
“one who is precious”·“resembling a little rock”
Allin is a variant of Alan. Interpretations include “one who is precious” and “resembling a little rock”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Allin is a variant of Alan. Interpretations include “one who is precious” and “resembling a little rock”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Allin is a variant of Alan. A possible origin is Celtic, although the derivation remains uncertain.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Allin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 125
- 125 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2009. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 266 as a first name in 2020; 842 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Allin’s family of names
Allin has a related form in Alan. In Assyrian Neo-Aramaic usage, Allin is a Roman-alphabet rendering of ܐܠܢ. In Greek usage, Allin as a surname is a transliteration of Άλλην.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Allin
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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