Meaning not yet researched.
Aly: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,414 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,414 in 2016; #3,716 in 2025. About 74% of babies named Aly in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,716 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #2,414.
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Aly: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,414 in 2016 · most girls in one year: 77 (2016).
In 2025, 40 US girls were named Aly, making it the 3,716th most common girls’ name of the year, up 180 places from #3,896 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 38 girls named Aly in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,414, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 77. For comparison, it was #2,557 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 14 US boys were named Aly, making it the 6,162nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,588 places from #4,574 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 22 boys named Aly in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,996, reached in 2000. That year also had the most boys given the name: 29. For comparison, it was #4,411 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aly in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1951 with 5 babies. In all, 2,197 US babies have been given the name, 68% of them girls and 32% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 810 babies named Aly.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 529 US girls were named Aly; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 77. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,182 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ally (10,247 babies since 1880), Ely (5,087 babies since 1880), Arly (895 babies since 1880) and Ali (44,888 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Aly 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 | 40 | #3,716 | 14 | #6,162 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,896 | 22 | #4,574 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,840 | 15 | #5,943 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,894 | 24 | #4,309 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,158 | 18 | #5,117 |
| 2020 | 49 | #3,181 | 12 | #6,641 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,731 | 21 | #4,646 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,007 | 19 | #4,928 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,782 | 19 | #4,944 |
| 2016 | 77 | #2,414 | 23 | #4,334 |
| 2015 | 70 | #2,557 | 22 | #4,411 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,970 | 19 | #4,878 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,839 | 11 | #7,050 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,681 | 21 | #4,538 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,911 | 18 | #4,988 |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,011 | 15 | #5,750 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,306 | 17 | #5,341 |
| 2008 | 75 | #2,511 | 19 | #4,907 |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,097 | 16 | #5,442 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,635 | 17 | #5,084 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,869 | 21 | #4,199 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,392 | 17 | #4,800 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,949 | 21 | #3,982 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,850 | 24 | #3,557 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,630 | 24 | #3,515 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,158 | 29 | #2,996 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,230 | 15 | #4,545 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,811 | 22 | #3,393 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,501 | 11 | #5,297 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,621 | 11 | #5,203 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,686 | 14 | #4,290 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,627 | 14 | #4,297 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,049 | 10 | #5,368 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,088 | 11 | #4,884 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,621 | 9 | #5,538 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,241 | 13 | #4,177 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,469 | 8 | #5,642 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,414 | 9 | #4,797 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,373 | 8 | #4,982 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,555 | 8 | #4,865 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #5,809 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,350 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,517 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,471 | — | — |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,381 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,798 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,471 | — | — |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,488 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #3,856 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,060 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,462 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #3,727 |
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).