Alan name - Meaning of Alan

Alan name - Meaning of Alan

Gender

Masculine

Lucky Number

1

Usage

English, Scottish, Breton, French, Gaelic

Pronounced

AL-ən (English)

Alan Meaning

The meaning of this name is not known for certain. It was used in Brittany at least as early as the 6th century, and it possibly means either "little rock" or "handsome" in Breton. Alternatively, it may derive from the tribal name of the Alans, an Iranian people who migrated into Europe in the 4th and 5th centuries. This was the name of several dukes of Brittany, and Breton settlers introduced it to England after the Norman conquest. Famous modern bearers include Alan Shepard (1923-1998), the first American in space and the fifth man to walk on the moon, and Alan Turing (1912-1954), a British mathematician and computer scientist. The exact meaning of the name Alan is not known. Most sources take it to be of Celtic origins, where it stands for both "rock" and "handsome". There is however another opinion that the name is a derivative of the "Alans", a tribal people from the Persian region, who moved to Europe in the 4th and 5th centuries. The name has been popular on and off since the 6th century.

Alan Related Names
Variants: Allan, Allen, Allyn (English), Allan, Allen (Scottish), Alain (French)
Diminutive: Al (English)
Feminine Forms: Alana, Alanna, Lana, Alaina, Alanis, Alannah, Alannis, Alayna, Allana, Allannah (English)
Other Languages: Alen (Croatian), Ailín (Irish), Alen (Slovene), Alun (Welsh)

Alan Celebrities
Alan Alda - actor, Alan Jackson - musician, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin - Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine, Alan Thicke - actor, Alan Trammell - baseball player, Alan Ashby - baseball player, Alan Autry - actor,