Alain Forename
427th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 1,638,164 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
France
Highest density in:
Central African Republic
Alain Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| France | 100% | 763,631 | 1:87 | 9 |
| DR Congo | 99% | 217,646 | 1:339 | 48 |
| Madagascar | 100% | 95,830 | 1:247 | 27 |
| Burundi | 89% | 66,620 | 1:149 | 12 |
| Canada | 100% | 66,547 | 1:498 | 94 |
| Central African Republic | - | 63,554 | 1:71 | 3 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 60,184 | 1:359 | 47 |
| Belgium | 100% | 53,449 | 1:215 | 27 |
| Rwanda | 84% | 47,376 | 1:240 | 35 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 16,636 | 1:494 | 102 |
| Congo | 100% | 14,753 | 1:340 | 47 |
| Ivory Coast | 99% | 14,388 | 1:1,604 | 182 |
| Benin | 100% | 13,700 | 1:772 | 152 |
| Gabon | 100% | 11,987 | 1:157 | 4 |
| United States | 100% | 10,920 | 1:33,199 | 2,199 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 7,745 | 1:12,597 | 1,802 |
| Morocco | 100% | 6,333 | 1:5,424 | 555 |
| Haiti | 100% | 6,051 | 1:1,773 | 282 |
| Chad | 99% | 5,931 | 1:2,293 | 317 |
| Angola | - | 5,668 | 1:4,758 | 755 |
| Guinea | 100% | 5,652 | 1:2,098 | 270 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 5,640 | 1:3,259 | 452 |
| Togo | - | 5,439 | 1:1,331 | 196 |
| Mexico | 99% | 5,088 | 1:24,399 | 1,360 |
| Spain | 100% | 4,964 | 1:9,373 | 730 |
| Philippines | 96% | 4,706 | 1:22,526 | 2,236 |
| Mali | 100% | 4,032 | 1:4,211 | 427 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 3,239 | 1:174 | 32 |
| Cuba | - | 2,993 | 1:3,844 | 479 |
| Brazil | 100% | 2,790 | 1:76,787 | 4,693 |
| Mauritius | - | 2,478 | 1:524 | 41 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 2,362 | 1:482 | 131 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 2,215 | 1:7,631 | 1,035 |
| Sudan | 100% | 2,181 | 1:17,335 | 1,813 |
| French Polynesia | - | 2,032 | 1:137 | 5 |
| Lebanon | 54% | 2,021 | 1:2,785 | 504 |
| England | 100% | 1,945 | 1:28,588 | 1,606 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 1,853 | 1:5,629 | 800 |
| Peru | 99% | 1,733 | 1:18,345 | 1,528 |
| Thailand | 100% | 1,676 | 1:41,805 | 4,744 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 1,666 | 1:162 | 22 |
| Senegal | 100% | 1,477 | 1:9,872 | 748 |
| Ghana | 100% | 1,461 | 1:18,471 | 1,437 |
| Germany | 100% | 1,402 | 1:68,957 | 1,703 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 1,276 | 1:8,308 | 949 |
| Poland | 100% | 1,272 | 1:29,896 | 954 |
| South Africa | 100% | 1,241 | 1:43,943 | 4,723 |
| Colombia | 100% | 1,227 | 1:38,940 | 1,981 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 1,005 | 1:30,052 | 2,158 |
| Egypt | 100% | 976 | 1:94,161 | 4,390 |
| Chile | 100% | 724 | 1:24,319 | 1,214 |
| Italy | 100% | 699 | 1:87,356 | 1,766 |
| Portugal | - | 646 | 1:16,116 | 839 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 644 | 1:32,297 | 3,883 |
| Australia | - | 468 | 1:29,183 | 1,767 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 466 | 1:66,121 | 7,124 |
| Ecuador | - | 424 | 1:41,809 | 1,628 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 375 | 1:687,903 | 47,379 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 297 | 1:312 | 38 |
| Vanuatu | - | 292 | 1:897 | 247 |
| Panama | 100% | 254 | 1:15,380 | 1,704 |
| Somalia | - | 239 | 1:56,594 | 2,774 |
| Algeria | 100% | 213 | 1:179,233 | 3,046 |
| Sweden | 99% | 213 | 1:46,281 | 2,496 |
| China | - | 182 | 1:7,505,801 | 59,397 |
| Andorra | - | 175 | 1:474 | 79 |
| Djibouti | - | 174 | 1:5,262 | 543 |
| New Zealand | - | 173 | 1:26,220 | 1,841 |
| Malawi | 100% | 169 | 1:101,256 | 5,457 |
| Monaco | 100% | 166 | 1:232 | 16 |
| India | 74% | 153 | 1:7,940,379 | 258,898 |
| Kuwait | - | 152 | 1:24,903 | 2,523 |
| Greece | 100% | 150 | 1:72,897 | 2,215 |
| Japan | - | 148 | 1:864,771 | 14,166 |
| Suriname | - | 132 | 1:4,188 | 917 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 124 | 1:27,642 | 1,297 |
| Ireland | 100% | 118 | 1:39,352 | 1,431 |
| Hong Kong | - | 118 | 1:65,701 | 2,614 |
| Kenya | - | 114 | 1:406,203 | 12,374 |
| Scotland | 95% | 111 | 1:48,201 | 1,542 |
| Bahrain | - | 104 | 1:12,968 | 2,016 |
| Denmark | - | 102 | 1:55,387 | 2,021 |
| Russia | 72% | 101 | 1:1,428,056 | 10,849 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 99 | 1:1,793,579 | 37,113 |
| Singapore | 100% | 99 | 1:63,506 | 6,876 |
| Austria | 100% | 96 | 1:88,690 | 1,988 |
| Qatar | 100% | 92 | 1:25,757 | 3,566 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 90 | 1:52,977 | 2,286 |
| Tunisia | 100% | 88 | 1:7,692 | 874 |
| Norway | 100% | 86 | 1:59,678 | 2,305 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 80 | 1:201,355 | 3,056 |
| Malta | - | 68 | 1:6,314 | 764 |
| Argentina | 100% | 67 | 1:638,407 | 4,169 |
| Malaysia | 99% | 65 | 1:468,461 | 20,872 |
| Saint Barthelemy | - | 60 | 1:159 | 51 |
| Niger | 92% | 59 | 1:325,152 | 7,706 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 100% | 54 | 1:117 | 18 |
| Honduras | 100% | 53 | 1:166,367 | 4,231 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 52 | 1:1,781,214 | 3,081 |
| Mozambique | - | 49 | 1:555,987 | 1,346 |
| Uganda | 67% | 49 | 1:835,856 | 15,656 |
| Estonia | 100% | 46 | 1:28,595 | 2,108 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 45 | 1:54,639 | 2,152 |
| Czechia | 100% | 44 | 1:242,186 | 1,771 |
| Romania | 100% | 44 | 1:455,727 | 12,726 |
| Micronesia | - | 43 | 1:2,477 | 350 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 41 | 1:174,439 | 11,761 |
| Finland | 100% | 40 | 1:137,080 | 2,784 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 40 | 1:594,242 | 30,447 |
| Iraq | - | 39 | 1:897,894 | 7,740 |
| Wales | 100% | 39 | 1:79,341 | 2,199 |
| Gibraltar | - | 36 | 1:948 | 199 |
| Guyana | 100% | 36 | 1:21,202 | 2,567 |
| Zambia | - | 36 | 1:440,411 | 10,751 |
| Hungary | 100% | 31 | 1:315,864 | 1,393 |
| Paraguay | 94% | 31 | 1:233,445 | 3,488 |
| Croatia | 100% | 30 | 1:140,569 | 2,926 |
| Israel | 74% | 30 | 1:280,097 | 7,331 |
| Jersey | - | 29 | 1:3,448 | 479 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 29 | 1:46,945 | 4,279 |
| Jamaica | - | 28 | 1:102,972 | 4,346 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 27 | 1:1,955,123 | 21,944 |
| Cambodia | - | 22 | 1:739,697 | 13,291 |
| Pakistan | 67% | 22 | 1:8,834,440 | 66,641 |
| Botswana | - | 21 | 1:104,021 | 8,595 |
| Turkey | 100% | 19 | 1:4,094,827 | 20,430 |
| El Salvador | - | 18 | 1:352,321 | 3,774 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 18 | 1:334,352 | 6,829 |
| Aruba | - | 17 | 1:6,105 | 1,121 |
| Bermuda | - | 15 | 1:4,322 | 727 |
| Laos | - | 14 | 1:470,490 | 483 |
| Liberia | 100% | 14 | 1:315,147 | 9,860 |
| South Korea | - | 14 | 1:396,030 | 11,136 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 13 | 1:13,678 | 1,658 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 12 | 1:295,858 | 3,040 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 12 | 1:2,892 | 588 |
| Guam | - | 10 | 1:16,065 | 1,791 |
| Nepal | 67% | 10 | 1:2,848,735 | 38,513 |
| Oman | - | 10 | 1:410,867 | 4,770 |
| Ukraine | - | 10 | 1:4,549,991 | 8,360 |
| Belarus | 50% | 9 | 1:1,053,598 | 5,565 |
| Belize | 100% | 9 | 1:39,368 | 3,319 |
| Papua New Guinea | 100% | 9 | 1:905,813 | 63,479 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 9 | 1:590,007 | 2,547 |
| Wallis and Futuna | 100% | 9 | 1:1,503 | 36 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 8 | 1:13,718 | 1,590 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 7 | 1:15,940 | 2,043 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 6 | 1:16,566 | 2,341 |
| Iceland | - | 6 | 1:61,003 | 3,164 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 6 | 1:32,000 | 2,340 |
| Serbia | 100% | 6 | 1:1,190,954 | 6,486 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 5 | 1:368,629 | 2,296 |
| Bahamas | - | 5 | 1:79,874 | 1,458 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 5 | 1:105,830 | 3,482 |
| Curaçao | - | 5 | 1:31,161 | 859 |
| Mauritania | - | 5 | 1:819,048 | 12,822 |
| Syria | - | 5 | 1:3,861,215 | 5,356 |
| Afghanistan | 100% | 4 | 1:8,155,879 | 35,337 |
| Albania | 100% | 4 | 1:761,642 | 22,793 |
| Bangladesh | - | 4 | 1:39,865,342 | 24,379 |
| Brunei | - | 4 | 1:104,892 | 1,566 |
| Fiji | - | 4 | 1:223,094 | 2,508 |
| Guernsey | - | 4 | 1:15,833 | 609 |
| Myanmar | - | 4 | 1:12,987,068 | 1,965 |
| Namibia | - | 4 | 1:601,045 | 7,837 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 4 | 1:3,855,954 | 74,439 |
| Armenia | - | 3 | 1:972,918 | 8,284 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 3 | 1:3,214,315 | 27,427 |
| Iran | - | 3 | 1:26,165,623 | 45,792 |
| Jordan | 71% | 3 | 1:2,942,258 | 8,136 |
| Latvia | - | 3 | 1:671,882 | 3,893 |
| Anguilla | - | 2 | 1:6,628 | 945 |
| Barbados | - | 2 | 1:144,894 | 2,643 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 2 | 1:1,762,229 | 6,852 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 2 | 1:435,538 | 3,859 |
| Dominica | - | 2 | 1:37,736 | 863 |
| Georgia | - | 2 | 1:1,869,233 | 20,119 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 2 | 1:18,928 | 806 |
| Macau | - | 2 | 1:304,104 | 1,640 |
| Montserrat | - | 2 | 1:2,438 | 412 |
| Palestine | 100% | 2 | 1:2,275,029 | 4,783 |
| Bhutan | - | 1 | 1:824,928 | 6,865 |
| Bulgaria | - | 1 | 1:6,990,390 | 27,036 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Comoros | - | 1 | 1:761,339 | 901 |
| Cook Islands | - | 1 | 1:18,153 | 1,349 |
| Faroe Islands | - | 1 | 1:49,127 | 2,467 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Grenada | - | 1 | 1:108,125 | 4,208 |
| Guinea-Bissau | - | 1 | 1:1,728,218 | 422 |
| Isle of Man | - | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Kazakhstan | - | 1 | 1:17,746,845 | 44,366 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 1 | 1:2,039,997 | 47,971 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| Lithuania | - | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| North Macedonia | - | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 1 | 1:54,861 | 2,604 |
| San Marino | 100% | 1 | 1:32,920 | 787 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 1 | 1:11,551,019 | 3,224 |
| Swaziland | - | 1 | 1:1,300,177 | 3,374 |
| Tajikistan | - | 1 | 1:8,374,922 | 7,831 |
| Transnistria | - | 1 | 1:475,638 | 2,115 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 1 | 1:30,786,440 | 17,476 |
| Vatican City | - | 1 | 1:123 | 15 |
| Yemen | - | 1 | 1:26,296,751 | 14,474 |
The alternate forms: Alaín (14), Alaîn (2) & Alaìn (1) are calculated separately.
Alain (97,350) may also be a surname.
Alain Forename Popularity
Alain Demographics
Alain Political Affiliation
in United States
Sample size: 1,531 (2014)
United States
Average
Phonetically Similar Names
Alain Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Alain in the Russian language | ||
| Алаин | alain | - |
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Footnotes
- First names are taken from the first part of an person's personal name. That is, not their inherited name(s), i.e. their surname(s). The first name includes particles, but not middle names
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- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
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