Ally
#2,117 for girls in 2025, 88 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #9,894
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 636 births
- Debut · girls
- 13 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,230since 1985
Ally over time
Rank among girls' names. Ally has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,117 | 88 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,870 | 107 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #1,750 | 117 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,612 | 131 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,450 | 148 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,373 | 158 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,295 | 177 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,255 | 184 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,152 | 215 | — | |
| 2016 | #984 | 272 | — | |
| 2015 | #872 | 319 | — | |
| 2014 | #737 | 381 | — | |
| 2013 | #605 | 463 | — | |
| 2012 | #584 | 499 | — | |
| 2011 | #674 | 419 | — | |
| 2010 | #686 | 418 | — | |
| 2009 | #810 | 349 | — | |
| 2008 | #767 | 383 | — | |
| 2007 | #697 | 419 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #630 | 456 | — | |
| 2005 | #652 | 425 | — | |
| 2004 | #594 | 473 | — | |
| 2003 | #670 | 394 | — | |
| 2002 | #582 | 444 | — | |
| 2001 | #657 | 383 | — | |
| 2000 | #605 | 418 | — | |
| 1999 | #480 | 540 | — | |
| 1998 | #417 | 636 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,036 | 184 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,840 | 79 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #1,900 | 73 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,209 | 60 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,898 | 74 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,191 | 61 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,738 | 43 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,101 | 62 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,194 | 55 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,646 | 40 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,360 | 44 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,360 | 26 | — | |
| 1985 | #5,348 | 13 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ally! It came in at #5,348, and was given to 13 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1985, when fewer than 14 girls a year got the name.
See more about Ally
- 247 spots since 2024 (#1,870 → #2,117)
- 744 spots since 2020 (#1,373 → #2,117)
- 1,245 spots since 2015 (#872 → #2,117)
- Biggest jump: 619 spots in 1998 (#1,036 → #417)
- Biggest drop: 168 spots in 2017 (#984 → #1,152)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 1998 at #417 (636 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 18 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 19 yrs · run 1998–2016
- Highest: 1 in 2,778 girls born in 1998 were named Ally (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,264 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 40.5% of all girls named Ally (4,144) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 178 | #2,194 (1989) | #3,182 |
| 1990s | 1,812 | #417 (1998) | #1,681 |
| 2000s | 4,144 | #582 (2002) | #666 |
| 2010s | 3,347 | #584 (2012) | #884 |
| 2020s | 749 | #1,373 (2020) | #1,695 |
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.
Ally in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 39,514 of them was named Ally, which outranked 82.2% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,332Shemeka45
- #2,332Sheneka45
- #2,332Zaneta45
- #2,360Ally44
- #2,360Addison44
- #2,360Adelina44
- #2,360Carie44
- #2,398Allissa43
- #2,398Aviva43
- #2,398Callan43
Tied with 37 names at #2,360; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.