Alaa
#3,211 for girls in 2025, 49 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 76.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 61 births
- Debut · girls
- 11 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,525since 1981
Alaa 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,211 | 49 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #2,819 | 59 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | #3,911 | 38 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #3,171 | 51 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #3,297 | 48 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #3,338 | 46 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #2,814 | 59 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #3,107 | 52 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #2,779 | 61 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | #3,139 | 52 | #6,726 | 12 |
| 2015 | #3,024 | 56 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,226 | 50 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #3,267 | 49 | #8,118 | 9 |
| 2012 | #3,464 | 46 | #8,864 | 8 |
| 2011 | #3,603 | 43 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2010 | #4,180 | 35 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #4,677 | 31 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #3,859 | 41 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #4,944 | 29 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #4,463 | 32 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #4,373 | 31 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #3,898 | 36 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | #4,943 | 25 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #4,498 | 27 | #4,919 | 15 |
| 2001 | #3,417 | 39 | #4,476 | 17 |
| 2000 | #2,940 | 48 | #5,040 | 14 |
| 1999 | #3,509 | 35 | #6,042 | 10 |
| 1998 | #3,831 | 30 | #4,873 | 13 |
| 1997 | #3,897 | 28 | #4,960 | 12 |
| 1996 | #3,505 | 32 | #4,878 | 12 |
| 1995 | #3,492 | 31 | #3,020 | 23 |
| 1994 | #4,238 | 24 | #2,951 | 24 |
| 1993 | #3,987 | 26 | #4,447 | 13 |
| 1992 | #3,773 | 28 | #3,220 | 20 |
| 1991 | #3,369 | 32 | #4,231 | 13 |
| 1990 | #4,380 | 22 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #4,848 | 18 | #3,618 | 15 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #4,450 | 10 |
| 1987 | #4,857 | 16 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #3,882 | 11 |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 | #3,701 | 11 |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 | — | |
| 1980 | — | #4,940 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alaa! It came in at #5,885, and was given to 11 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1986, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Alaa is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Michigan#1,012 · 1 in 5,895
- New York#1,079 · 1 in 6,285
- California#2,109 · 1 in 19,575
Best ever in a state: #529 in Michigan, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #1,012 | 7 | 1 in 5,895 |
| New York | #1,079 | 14 | 1 in 6,285 |
| California | #2,109 | 10 | 1 in 19,575 |
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See more about Alaa
- 392 spots since 2024 (#2,819 → #3,211)
- 127 spots since 2020 (#3,338 → #3,211)
- 187 spots since 2015 (#3,024 → #3,211)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 2017 at #2,779 (61 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 27,461 girls born in 2024 were named Alaa (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 32,801 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,779 in 2017, was only 1 in 28,303 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.0% of all girls named Alaa (503) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1988, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 104 | #4,848 (1989) | #6,284 |
| 1990s | 288 | #3,369 (1991) | #3,798 |
| 2000s | 339 | #2,940 (2000) | #4,201 |
| 2010s | 503 | #2,779 (2017) | #3,260 |
| 2020s | 291 | #2,819 (2024) | #3,291 |
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.
Alaa in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 28,303 of them was named Alaa, which outranked 84.9% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,744Skylin62
- #2,744Zayleigh62
- #2,744Zhuri62
- #2,779Alaa61
- #2,779Aalayah61
- #2,779Alijah61
- #2,779Aly61
- #2,816Abagail60
- #2,816Aleen60
- #2,816Anslee60
Tied with 36 names at #2,779; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 231,370 of them was named Alaa, which outranked 38.0% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,140Zorian9
- #8,140Zubayr9
- #8,140Zyren9
- #8,840Alaa8
- #8,840Aadan8
- #8,840Aamari8
- #8,840Aarit8
- #9,696Aadesh7
- #9,696Aadin7
- #9,696Aadish7
Tied with 855 names at #8,840; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.