Alia
#587 for girls in 2025, 499 births
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 555 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,028since 1915
Alia over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Alia has never cracked the top 500 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #587 | 499 |
| 2024 | #560 | 542 |
| 2023 | #556 | 545 |
| 2022 | #585 | 511 |
| 2021 | #594 | 505 |
| 2020 | #577 | 510 |
| 2019 | #550 | 555 |
| 2018 | #655 | 450 |
| 2017 | #637 | 461 |
| 2016 | #651 | 450 |
| 2015 | #612 | 472 |
| 2014 | #729 | 384 |
| 2013 | #724 | 381 |
| 2012 | #764 | 363 |
| 2011 | #727 | 380 |
| 2010 | #729 | 384 |
| 2009 | #771 | 368 |
| 2008 | #929 | 294 |
| 2007 | #1,001 | 264 |
| 2006 | #921 | 287 |
| 2005 | #970 | 252 |
| 2004 | #828 | 300 |
| 2003 | #878 | 275 |
| 2002 | #856 | 269 |
| 2001 | #843 | 271 |
| 2000 | #730 | 318 |
| 1999 | #854 | 253 |
| 1998 | #932 | 223 |
| 1997 | #902 | 223 |
| 1996 | #934 | 208 |
| 1995 | #908 | 208 |
| 1994 | #1,004 | 185 |
| 1993 | #1,299 | 130 |
| 1992 | #1,207 | 144 |
| 1991 | #1,240 | 137 |
| 1990 | #1,130 | 153 |
| 1989 | #1,234 | 129 |
| 1988 | #1,187 | 127 |
| 1987 | #1,329 | 103 |
| 1986 | #1,065 | 141 |
| 1985 | #1,023 | 147 |
| 1984 | #1,238 | 104 |
| 1983 | #1,169 | 112 |
| 1982 | #1,178 | 116 |
| 1981 | #1,165 | 114 |
| 1980 | #1,206 | 109 |
| 1979 | #1,301 | 96 |
| 1978 | #1,412 | 82 |
| 1977 | #1,170 | 106 |
| 1976 | #1,694 | 57 |
| 1975 | #1,604 | 61 |
| 1974 | #1,733 | 52 |
| 1973 | #1,374 | 72 |
| 1972 | #2,523 | 28 |
| 1971 | #3,508 | 18 |
| 1970 | #3,872 | 15 |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 |
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| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
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| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 |
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| 1927 | #3,875 | 7 |
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| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 |
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| 1921 | #3,400 | 9 |
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| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 |
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| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 |
| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 |
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First appearance
1915
The first year at least five girls were named Alia! It came in at #4,274, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1920, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 27 spots since 2024 (#560 → #587)
- 10 spots since 2020 (#577 → #587)
- 25 spots since 2015 (#612 → #587)
- Biggest jump: 158 spots in 2009 (#929 → #771)
- Biggest drop: 142 spots in 2005 (#828 → #970)
Rise & fade · girls
104 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2019 at #550 (555 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 30 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 30 yrs · run 2008–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 2,944
- Highest: 1 in 2,944 girls born in 2023 were named Alia (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,221 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #550 in 2019, was only 1 in 3,024 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 30.5% of all girls named Alia (4,280) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 17 | #3,552 (1916) | #4,212 |
| 1920s | 22 | #3,400 (1921) | #3,903 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 46 | #4,418 (1969) | #5,818 |
| 1970s | 587 | #1,170 (1977) | #2,019 |
| 1980s | 1,202 | #1,023 (1985) | #1,179 |
| 1990s | 1,864 | #854 (1999) | #1,041 |
| 2000s | 2,898 | #730 (2000) | #873 |
| 2010s | 4,280 | #550 (2019) | #678 |
| 2020s | 3,112 | #556 (2023) | #577 |
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.
Alia in 2003
girls
#878
275 births · 1 in 6,644 girls
Top girls' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 6,644 of them was named Alia, which outranked 95.2% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).