In 2025, 56 US girls were named Alea, making it the 2,958th most common girls’ name of the year, up 164 places from #3,122 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 51 girls named Alea in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,229, reached in 1999. The most girls given the name in a single year was 156, in 2000. For comparison, it was #2,620 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alea in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 5 babies. In all, 4,085 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,254 babies named Alea.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 579 US girls were named Alea; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 70. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,701 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alea ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,662 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ali (44,888 babies since 1880), Aleah (16,592 babies since 1880), Alia (14,028 babies since 1880) and Aliya (11,075 babies since 1880).