Alea
#2,957 for girls in 2025, 56 births
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 154 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,085since 1961
Alea over time
Rank among girls' names. Alea has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,957 | 56 |
| 2024 | #3,119 | 51 |
| 2023 | #2,730 | 63 |
| 2022 | #2,995 | 55 |
| 2021 | #2,510 | 70 |
| 2020 | #2,748 | 60 |
| 2019 | #2,681 | 64 |
| 2018 | #2,677 | 64 |
| 2017 | #3,346 | 47 |
| 2016 | #3,280 | 49 |
| 2015 | #2,619 | 68 |
| 2014 | #2,412 | 75 |
| 2013 | #1,953 | 101 |
| 2012 | #2,064 | 93 |
| 2011 | #1,817 | 111 |
| 2010 | #1,818 | 112 |
| 2009 | #1,660 | 134 |
| 2008 | #1,880 | 113 |
| 2007 | #1,744 | 124 |
| 2006 | #1,615 | 132 |
| 2005 | #1,574 | 129 |
| 2004 | #1,726 | 112 |
| 2003 | #1,710 | 111 |
| 2002 | #1,632 | 113 |
| 2001 | #1,444 | 130 |
| 2000 | #1,255 | 156 |
| 1999 | #1,229 | 154 |
| 1998 | #1,324 | 133 |
| 1997 | #1,368 | 125 |
| 1996 | #1,348 | 125 |
| 1995 | #1,432 | 113 |
| 1994 | #1,594 | 95 |
| 1993 | #1,898 | 74 |
| 1992 | #1,798 | 80 |
| 1991 | #1,979 | 70 |
| 1990 | #1,938 | 71 |
| 1989 | #2,769 | 40 |
| 1988 | #2,216 | 51 |
| 1987 | #2,332 | 45 |
| 1986 | #1,952 | 56 |
| 1985 | #2,398 | 41 |
| 1984 | #2,227 | 44 |
| 1983 | #1,839 | 57 |
| 1982 | #2,115 | 48 |
| 1981 | #2,061 | 50 |
| 1980 | #3,134 | 27 |
| 1979 | #3,078 | 27 |
| 1978 | #2,572 | 33 |
| 1977 | #3,761 | 19 |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 |
| 1975 | #3,155 | 22 |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 |
| 1973 | #2,914 | 23 |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 |
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| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 |
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| 1966 | #4,198 | 10 |
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| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 |
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| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alea! It came in at #6,567, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1962, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Alea is popular in 1986
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Florida#1,217 · 1 in 13,287
- California#2,601 · 1 in 41,540
Best ever in a state: #136 in Hawaii, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Florida | #1,217 | 5 | 1 in 13,287 |
| California | #2,601 | 5 | 1 in 41,540 |
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See more about Alea
- 162 spots since 2024 (#3,119 → #2,957)
- 209 spots since 2020 (#2,748 → #2,957)
- 338 spots since 2015 (#2,619 → #2,957)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 1999 at #1,229 (154 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,518 girls born in 1999 were named Alea (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,701 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 30.7% of all girls named Alea (1,254) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 31 | #4,198 (1966) | #5,237 |
| 1970s | 162 | #2,572 (1978) | #4,254 |
| 1980s | 459 | #1,839 (1983) | #2,304 |
| 1990s | 1,040 | #1,229 (1999) | #1,591 |
| 2000s | 1,254 | #1,255 (2000) | #1,624 |
| 2010s | 784 | #1,817 (2011) | #2,467 |
| 2020s | 355 | #2,510 (2021) | #2,843 |
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.
Alea in 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
More about 1986
girls
1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 30,635 of them was named Alea, which outranked 84.8% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,932Shaquanna57
- #1,932Taneshia57
- #1,932Tristin57
- #1,952Alea56
- #1,952Ashanti56
- #1,952Ashlynn56
- #1,952Brienne56
- #1,980America55
- #1,980Asheley55
- #1,980Charise55
Tied with 27 names at #1,952; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.