Meaning not yet researched.
Alaa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 49 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,780 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,780 in 2017; #3,211 in 2025. About 89% of babies named Alaa in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,211 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #2,780.
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Alaa: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 49 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,780 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 61 (2017).
In 2025, 49 US girls were named Alaa, making it the 3,211th most common girls’ name of the year, down 391 places from #2,820 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 59 girls named Alaa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,780, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 61. For comparison, it was #3,025 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Alaa, making it the 10,738th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,721 places from #9,017 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 8 boys named Alaa in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,952, reached in 1994. That year also had the most boys given the name: 24. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alaa in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 5 babies. In all, 1,989 US babies have been given the name, 77% of them girls and 23% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 580 babies named Alaa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 515 US girls were named Alaa; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 61. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,801 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ayla (38,040 babies since 1880), Alaia (17,699 babies since 1880), Alayah (12,228 babies since 1880) and Alaya (11,095 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Alaa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,211 | 6 | #10,738 |
| 2024 | 59 | #2,820 | 8 | #9,017 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,912 | 7 | #9,799 |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,176 | 8 | #9,015 |
| 2021 | 48 | #3,298 | 7 | #9,767 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,339 | 6 | #10,653 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,815 | 8 | #8,919 |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,109 | 8 | #8,848 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,780 | 8 | #8,874 |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,140 | 12 | #6,735 |
| 2015 | 56 | #3,025 | — | — |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,229 | 5 | #12,183 |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,270 | 9 | #8,138 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,468 | 8 | #8,886 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,605 | 10 | #7,519 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,185 | 9 | #8,166 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,686 | 12 | #6,817 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,865 | 6 | #11,093 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,949 | 8 | #8,948 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,466 | 7 | #9,609 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,376 | 6 | #10,182 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,904 | 13 | #5,821 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,947 | 10 | #6,729 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,501 | 15 | #4,920 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,417 | 17 | #4,482 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,940 | 14 | #5,047 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,509 | 10 | #6,052 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,834 | 13 | #4,881 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,898 | 12 | #4,966 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,507 | 12 | #4,891 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,493 | 23 | #3,023 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,242 | 24 | #2,952 |
| 1993 | 26 | #3,988 | 13 | #4,450 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,773 | 20 | #3,221 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,371 | 13 | #4,238 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,383 | 11 | #4,675 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,856 | 15 | #3,620 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,701 | 10 | #4,456 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,861 | 8 | #4,974 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,563 | 11 | #3,887 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,466 | 5 | #6,548 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,547 | 11 | #3,705 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,827 | 8 | #4,507 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,918 | 6 | #5,639 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,892 | — | — |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #4,947 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,076 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).