Aly

Where Aly comes from

The dictionaries list Aly as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Alison, Alyssa, or Alexandra — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Arabic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1977
    First appearance
    #8,444 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2003
    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.
  3. 2016
    Peak, #2,412
    77 babies named Aly — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2024
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,892.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Alison, Alyssa, or Alexandra.
  • A male given name from Arabic, a variant spelling of the Muslim Ali.
Namesakes

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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.