Gender: MasculineUsages: BasquePronunciation: a-LEHNMeaning: Basque form of Alain (see Alan).Notes MEANING · https://www.euskaltzaindia.eus/index.php?option=com_ecoeoda&task=izenaIkusi&Itemid=472&lang=es&kodea=5392&mota=izenak · The text there translates as: "Blessed Alen de Rotxe says: A Spanish Bishop, unable to correct the disorders in his diocese, although he did everything he could to that end, being in great distress, decided to establish the devotion to the Holy Rosary, following the example of Saint *Dominique; like that Saint, he took care to explain the mysteries of the Rosary, and to show how to meditate on them." · This so-called "Alen de Rotxe" is no other than blessed Alan of the Rock (in French, Alain de la Roche)". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alanus_de_RupeUSAGE Spain https://ine.es/widgets/nombApell/nombApell.shtml As of 2023, 672 men in Spain, mostly in Galicia and the Basque Country, av. Age 14.1, peaking in the 2010s (notice that this combines Alén and Alen)Euskadi and Navarre As of 2023, 105 men (mostly in the province of Gipuzkoa) https://www.ine.es/tnombres/formGeneralresult.do?vista=1
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Usages: Basque
Pronunciation: a-LEHN
Meaning: Basque form of Alain (see Alan).
Notes
MEANING
· https://www.euskaltzaindia.eus/index.php?option=com_ecoeoda&task=izenaIkusi&Itemid=472&lang=es&kodea=5392&mota=izenak
· The text there translates as: "Blessed Alen de Rotxe says: A Spanish Bishop, unable to correct the disorders in his diocese, although he did everything he could to that end, being in great distress, decided to establish the devotion to the Holy Rosary, following the example of Saint *Dominique; like that Saint, he took care to explain the mysteries of the Rosary, and to show how to meditate on them."
· This so-called "Alen de Rotxe" is no other than blessed Alan of the Rock (in French, Alain de la Roche)". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alanus_de_Rupe
USAGE
Spain
https://ine.es/widgets/nombApell/nombApell.shtml As of 2023, 672 men in Spain, mostly in Galicia and the Basque Country, av. Age 14.1, peaking in the 2010s (notice that this combines Alén and Alen)
Euskadi and Navarre
As of 2023, 105 men (mostly in the province of Gipuzkoa) https://www.ine.es/tnombres/formGeneralresult.do?vista=1