Meaning not yet researched.
Alya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 167 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,237 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,237 in 2021; #1,334 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,334 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,237.
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Alya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 167 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,237 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 190 (2021).
In 2025, 167 US girls were named Alya, making it the 1,334th most common girls’ name of the year, down 55 places from #1,279 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 181 girls named Alya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,237, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 190. For comparison, it was #2,849 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alya in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 5 babies. In all, 2,242 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 989 babies named Alya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,336 US girls were named Alya; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 190. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,624 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alya ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #575 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aliyah (49,054 babies since 1880), Alina (45,387 babies since 1880), Ali (44,888 babies since 1880) and Aleah (16,592 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aalyha, Ahalya and Ghalya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aalyha (19), Ahalya (11), Ghalya (5).
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 Alya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 13 | #575 | — |
| Colorado | 7 | #712 | — |
| Florida | 20 | #796 | #2,092 |
| Illinois | 11 | #800 | — |
| New York | 16 | #947 | #1,385 |
| California | 28 | #968 | #2,163 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,187 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,220 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,286 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,461 | — |
| Texas | 14 | #1,624 | #3,287 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 167 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 2024 | 181 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 2023 | 162 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 2022 | 144 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 2021 | 190 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 2020 | 145 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 2019 | 113 | #1,802 | — | — |
| 2018 | 82 | #2,241 | — | — |
| 2017 | 83 | #2,257 | — | — |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,565 | — | — |
| 2015 | 61 | #2,849 | — | — |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,845 | — | — |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,597 | — | — |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,318 | — | — |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,357 | — | — |
| 2010 | 55 | #3,046 | — | — |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,563 | — | — |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,784 | — | — |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,654 | — | — |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,506 | — | — |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,494 | — | — |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,709 | — | — |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,423 | — | — |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,778 | — | — |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,029 | — | — |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,457 | — | — |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,680 | — | — |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,643 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,890 | — | — |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,736 | — | — |
| 1995 | 15 | #5,972 | — | — |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,723 | — | — |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,633 | — | — |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,021 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,360 | — | — |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,322 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,708 | — | — |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,907 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,804 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,556 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,472 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,441 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,114 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,463 | — | — |
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).