Alya

#1,334 for girls in 2025, 167 births

Peak · girls
2021 · 190 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,242
since 1973

Alya over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Alya has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202017girlsat peak
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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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rankbirths
2025#1,334167
2024#1,279181
2023#1,387162
2022#1,506144
2021#1,236190
2020#1,474145
2019#1,802113
2018#2,23882
2017#2,25783
2016#2,56069
2015#2,84661
2014#2,84360
2013#2,59768
2012#3,31449
2011#3,35048
2010#3,04455
2009#3,56145
2008#3,77942
2007#3,65344
2006#3,50545
2005#4,48730
2004#4,70728
2003#4,41829
2002#4,76725
2001#4,02531
2000#3,45338
1999#5,66118
1998#4,63623
1997#5,86816
1996#6,72313
1995#5,95815
1994#5,71316
1993#6,62213
1992#6,00815
1991#9,3368
1990#7,30311
1989#9,6817
1988#5,89513
1987#6,78810
1986#8,5237
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First appearance
1973

The first year at least five girls were named Alya! It came in at #8,423, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1973–1979, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Alya
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 55 spots since 2024 (#1,279#1,334)
  • 140 spots since 2020 (#1,474#1,334)
  • 1,512 spots since 2015 (#2,846#1,334)
Rise & fade · girls
48 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1973
  • Peaked 2021 at #1,236 (190 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 8,636
  • Highest: 1 in 8,636 girls born in 2021 were named Alya (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 9,624 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 44.1% of all girls named Alya (989) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s10#8,423 (1973)#8,745
1980s50#5,895 (1988)#8,119
1990s148#4,636 (1998)#6,383
2000s357#3,453 (2000)#4,036
2010s688#1,802 (2019)#2,685
2020s989#1,236 (2021)#1,369

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.

Alya in 2017

girls
#2,257
83 births · 1 in 20,801 girls

Top girls' names in 2017

  1. #1Emma19,873
  2. #2Olivia18,778
  3. #3Ava16,017
  4. #4Isabella15,263
  5. #5Sophia14,947
  6. #6Mia13,521
  7. #7Charlotte12,969
  8. #8Amelia11,870
  9. #9Evelyn10,748
  10. #10Abigail10,645
  11. #2,257Alya83
More about 2017

girls

1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 20,801 of them was named Alya, which outranked 87.8% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alya
  1. #2,236Roxanna84
  2. #2,236Shaindy84
  3. #2,236Zelie84
  4. #2,257Alya83
  5. #2,257Analee83
  6. #2,257Anvi83
  7. #2,257Ariyanna83
  8. #2,268Anaiyah82
  9. #2,268Avaleigh82
  10. #2,268Ayda82

Tied with 10 names at #2,257; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2016
Risers
  1. 1,443Ensley#2,412#969
  2. 1,020Oaklynn#1,908#888
  3. 842Dream#1,667#825
  4. 749Oaklyn#1,425#676
  5. 717Melania#1,649#932
Fallers
  1. 263Julianne#919#1,182
  2. 243Milania#947#1,190
  3. 240Wendy#858#1,098
  4. 238Montserrat#808#1,046
  5. 224Nathaly#930#1,154

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2017