Aly
#3,712 for girls in 2025, 40 births · #6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
Given to girls 67.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2016 · 77 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,483since 1977
Aly 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 | #3,712 | 40 | #6,143 | 14 |
| 2024 | #3,892 | 38 | #4,571 | 22 |
| 2023 | #3,833 | 39 | #5,927 | 15 |
| 2022 | #2,894 | 58 | #4,303 | 24 |
| 2021 | #3,157 | 51 | #5,110 | 18 |
| 2020 | #3,179 | 49 | #6,620 | 12 |
| 2019 | #2,729 | 62 | #4,639 | 21 |
| 2018 | #3,004 | 54 | #4,918 | 19 |
| 2017 | #2,779 | 61 | #4,935 | 19 |
| 2016 | #2,412 | 77 | #4,327 | 23 |
| 2015 | #2,555 | 70 | #4,407 | 22 |
| 2014 | #2,969 | 57 | #4,866 | 19 |
| 2013 | #2,837 | 60 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #2,679 | 66 | #4,533 | 21 |
| 2011 | #2,909 | 59 | #4,983 | 18 |
| 2010 | #3,010 | 56 | #5,741 | 15 |
| 2009 | #3,298 | 50 | #5,334 | 17 |
| 2008 | #2,511 | 75 | #4,901 | 19 |
| 2007 | #3,096 | 56 | #5,434 | 16 |
| 2006 | #2,631 | 68 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #2,865 | 57 | #4,198 | 21 |
| 2004 | #4,387 | 31 | #4,793 | 17 |
| 2003 | #4,943 | 25 | #3,976 | 21 |
| 2002 | #7,816 | 13 | #3,554 | 24 |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 | #3,512 | 24 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 | #2,993 | 29 |
| 1999 | #5,219 | 20 | #4,537 | 15 |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 | #3,390 | 22 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 | #5,288 | 11 |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | #5,187 | 11 |
| 1995 | #5,677 | 16 | #4,280 | 14 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #4,290 | 14 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #4,872 | 11 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | #4,167 | 13 |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,499 | 8 | |
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| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | — | |
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| 1979 | — | #5,355 | 6 | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | — | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | — | |
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| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
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| 1970 | — | #3,836 | 7 | |
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| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,452 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Aly! It came in at #8,444, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1978–1985, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Aly 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.
- Texas#1,290 · 1 in 8,414
- California#2,901 · 1 in 32,625
Best ever in a state: #649 in Utah, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #1,290 | 19 | 1 in 8,414 |
| California | #2,901 | 6 | 1 in 32,625 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Aly
- 180 spots since 2024 (#3,892 → #3,712)
- 533 spots since 2020 (#3,179 → #3,712)
- 1,157 spots since 2015 (#2,555 → #3,712)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2016 at #2,412 (77 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 23,013 girls born in 2016 were named Aly (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 40,182 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 41.9% of all girls named Aly (622) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2002, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 11 | #8,444 (1977) | #9,097 |
| 1980s | 39 | #7,353 (1987) | #8,425 |
| 1990s | 123 | #5,219 (1999) | #7,523 |
| 2000s | 413 | #2,511 (2008) | #4,332 |
| 2010s | 622 | #2,412 (2016) | #2,788 |
| 2020s | 275 | #2,894 (2022) | #3,445 |
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.
Aly 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 Aly, 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
- #2,779Aly61
- #2,779Aalayah61
- #2,779Alaa61
- #2,779Alijah61
- #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 97,419 of them was named Aly, which outranked 65.4% 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).
- #4,746Zaydrian20
- #4,746Zayon20
- #4,746Zebadiah20
- #4,935Aly19
- #4,935Aarik19
- #4,935Aboubacar19
- #4,935Adama19
- #5,111Aadam18
- #5,111Abishai18
- #5,111Aceyn18
Tied with 175 names at #4,935; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.