Ala
#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births · Last seen for boys in 2011 at #12,287
Given to girls 84.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1889 · 5 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 801since 1889
Ala over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,722 | 21 | — | |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 | — | |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | — | |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | — | |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 | — | |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | — | |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | — | |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 | — | |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 | — | |
| 2015 | #5,833 | 22 | — | |
| 2014 | #6,987 | 17 | — | |
| 2013 | #7,748 | 15 | — | |
| 2012 | #8,632 | 13 | — | |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | — | |
| 2009 | #8,888 | 13 | — | |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | — | |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | — | |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | — | |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | — | |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | — | |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | — | |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 | — | |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #4,849 | 20 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #5,399 | 17 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 | — | |
| 1989 | #4,848 | 18 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | — | #4,130 | 10 | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | — | — | ||
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | — | — | ||
| 1977 | — | — | ||
| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | — | |
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
| 1970 | — | — | ||
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | — | ||
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | — | — | ||
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | — | |
| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 | — | |
| 1949 | #4,235 | 7 | — | |
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | — | ||
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 | — | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | #3,376 | 7 | — | |
| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 | — | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | #3,901 | 6 | — | |
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | — | |
| 1928 | #3,436 | 8 | — | |
| 1927 | #3,284 | 9 | — | |
| 1926 | #4,306 | 6 | — | |
| 1925 | #4,426 | 6 | — | |
| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 | — | |
| 1923 | #2,917 | 11 | — | |
| 1922 | #3,379 | 9 | — | |
| 1921 | #3,164 | 10 | — | |
| 1920 | #4,398 | 6 | — | |
| 1919 | #3,005 | 10 | — | |
| 1918 | #2,289 | 15 | — | |
| 1917 | #1,996 | 17 | — | |
| 1916 | #3,031 | 9 | — | |
| 1915 | #2,900 | 9 | — | |
| 1914 | #2,876 | 7 | — | |
| 1913 | #2,331 | 8 | — | |
| 1912 | #2,634 | 6 | — | |
| 1911 | #2,463 | 5 | — | |
| 1910 | #1,773 | 8 | — | |
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | #1,676 | 7 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,821 | 6 | — | |
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | — | ||
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| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | #1,279 | 5 | — | |
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Ala! It came in at #1,279, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1889–1906, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Ala is popular in 1889
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Ala
- 2,721 spots since 2024 (#8,443 → #5,722)
- 1,201 spots since 2020 (#6,923 → #5,722)
- 111 spots since 2015 (#5,833 → #5,722)
- Debuted 1889
- Peaked 1889 at #1,279 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1890, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 35,673 girls born in 1889 were named Ala (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 76,537 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 19.6% of all girls named Ala (157) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1994, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #1,279 (1889) | #1,279 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 13 | #1,676 (1908) | #1,749 |
| 1910s | 94 | #1,773 (1910) | #2,530 |
| 1920s | 76 | #2,917 (1923) | #3,831 |
| 1930s | 24 | #3,376 (1936) | #3,840 |
| 1940s | 7 | #4,235 (1949) | #4,235 |
| 1950s | 17 | #4,315 (1950) | #5,325 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 16 | #8,324 (1971) | #8,800 |
| 1980s | 63 | #4,848 (1989) | #6,990 |
| 1990s | 130 | #4,849 (1992) | #7,336 |
| 2000s | 103 | #7,580 (2000) | #10,011 |
| 2010s | 157 | #5,338 (2017) | #7,829 |
| 2020s | 96 | #5,722 (2025) | #7,089 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ala in 1889
Top girls' names in 1889
More about 1889
girls
178,366 girls got a published name in 1889; 1 in 35,673 of them was named Ala, which outranked 13.5% of the 1,479 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 200 names at #1,279; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.