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 | — | |
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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.
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 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 62,168 of them was named Alaa, which outranked 75.9% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,815Yanely29
- #3,815Zari29
- #3,815Zarina29
- #3,897Alaa28
- #3,897Adelle28
- #3,897Alessa28
- #3,897Aliesha28
- #4,007Aaliya27
- #4,007Adelia27
- #4,007Akayla27
Tied with 109 names at #3,897; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 157,095 of them was named Alaa, which outranked 54.1% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,668Zebedee13
- #4,668Zebediah13
- #4,668Zeus13
- #4,960Alaa12
- #4,960Aayush12
- #4,960Abdoul12
- #4,960Addam12
- #5,288Abdoulaye11
- #5,288Adante11
- #5,288Adeel11
Tied with 327 names at #4,960; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.