Alia

Where Alia comes from

Borrowed from Arabic عَالِيَة (ʕāliya). The feminine form of Ali.
— Wiktionary's entry for Alia
  • Arabic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #4,274 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2019
    Peak, #550
    555 babies named Alia — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic.
Namesakes

No widely known Alia turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.