Alla

Where Alla comes from

Alla hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1879
    Alla Nazimova born
    Russian-American actress
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1881
    Peak, #679
    7 babies named Alla — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1882
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1949
    Alla Pugacheva born
    Soviet-Russian singer, composer, and actress
  6. 1987
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Alla Pugacheva · Soviet-Russian singer, composer, and actress, born 1949
  • Alla Nazimova · Russian-American actress, 1879–1945
  • Alla Horska · Soviet painter, Ukrainian dissident, 1929–1970
  • Alla Cherkasova · Ukrainian wrestler, born 1989
  • Alla Kudryavtseva · Russian tennis player, born 1987

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.