Alya
#1,334 for girls in 2025, 167 births
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 190 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,242since 1973
Alya over time
Rank among girls' names. Alya has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,334 | 167 |
| 2024 | #1,279 | 181 |
| 2023 | #1,387 | 162 |
| 2022 | #1,506 | 144 |
| 2021 | #1,236 | 190 |
| 2020 | #1,474 | 145 |
| 2019 | #1,802 | 113 |
| 2018 | #2,238 | 82 |
| 2017 | #2,257 | 83 |
| 2016 | #2,560 | 69 |
| 2015 | #2,846 | 61 |
| 2014 | #2,843 | 60 |
| 2013 | #2,597 | 68 |
| 2012 | #3,314 | 49 |
| 2011 | #3,350 | 48 |
| 2010 | #3,044 | 55 |
| 2009 | #3,561 | 45 |
| 2008 | #3,779 | 42 |
| 2007 | #3,653 | 44 |
| 2006 | #3,505 | 45 |
| 2005 | #4,487 | 30 |
| 2004 | #4,707 | 28 |
| 2003 | #4,418 | 29 |
| 2002 | #4,767 | 25 |
| 2001 | #4,025 | 31 |
| 2000 | #3,453 | 38 |
| 1999 | #5,661 | 18 |
| 1998 | #4,636 | 23 |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 |
| 1992 | #6,008 | 15 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 |
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| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 |
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| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
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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.
Where Alya is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#849 · 1 in 4,553
- Virginia#862 · 1 in 4,322
- Washington#866 · 1 in 4,217
- Florida#918 · 1 in 5,225
- Arizona#928 · 1 in 4,622
Best ever in a state: #518 in Connecticut, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #849 | 8 | 1 in 4,553 |
| Virginia | #862 | 8 | 1 in 4,322 |
| Washington | #866 | 7 | 1 in 4,217 |
| Florida | #918 | 16 | 1 in 5,225 |
| Arizona | #928 | 6 | 1 in 4,622 |
| Michigan | #961 | 7 | 1 in 5,476 |
| New York | #973 | 15 | 1 in 5,417 |
| Georgia | #992 | 9 | 1 in 5,032 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,022 | 8 | 1 in 6,098 |
| Texas | #1,099 | 24 | 1 in 6,478 |
| California | #1,103 | 25 | 1 in 6,981 |
| Ohio | #1,147 | 7 | 1 in 6,944 |
| Illinois | #1,507 | 5 | 1 in 9,680 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Alya
- 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)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2021 at #1,236 (190 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 44.1% of all girls named Alya (989) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 10 | #8,423 (1973) | #8,745 |
| 1980s | 50 | #5,895 (1988) | #8,119 |
| 1990s | 148 | #4,636 (1998) | #6,383 |
| 2000s | 357 | #3,453 (2000) | #4,036 |
| 2010s | 688 | #1,802 (2019) | #2,685 |
| 2020s | 989 | #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 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 8,636 of them was named Alya, which outranked 93.0% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,229Maisyn191
- #1,229Sonia191
- #1,229Xena191
- #1,236Alya190
- #1,236Alisa190
- #1,236Amia190
- #1,236Darla190
- #1,242Atlas189
- #1,242Ayva189
- #1,242Elani189
Tied with 5 names at #1,236; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.