Ala
Ala is a girl's name that peaked in 2017, when it was the 5,338th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 5,722nd. About 720 Alas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ala boys named Ala
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 943
- Estimated living today
- 720
- Median age today
- 25
- Peak year
- 2017
- Best rank
- 5,338th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,722nd
- First recorded
- 1889
- Girls / boys
- 801 / 142
How old the living Alas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 943 babies given the name since 1889, about 720 are alive — 76 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Alas
- Ala ad-Din Tekish (1132–1200)12th-century Khwarazm Shah
- Ala al-Din Husayn (1110–1161)malik of the Ghurid dynasty
- Ala Al-Sasi (born 1987)footballer
- Ala al-Din Muhammad III (1211–1255)Nizari Ismaili Imam
- Ala ud-Daula Simnani (1261–1336)Iranian Sufi saint
- Ala Gertner (1912–1945)German Nazi concentration camp victim
People named Ala with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 2017
The most popular girls’ names the year Ala peaked:
Ala elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Ala | 115 | 3,605th |
| England and Wales girls | Ala | 84 | 2,589th |
| France boys | Ala | 75 | 6,001st |
| Poland girls | Ala | 11 birth registrations | 569th |
| England and Wales boys | Ala | 3 | 3,036th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Ala among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Ala | 17 | 19 |
| Finland boys | Ala | 5 | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Ala lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 234 women called Ala were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cantabria | Ala | 22 | 0.072 | 872 |
| Navarra | Ala | 12 | 0.035 | 1,643 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Ala | 10 | 0.032 | 1,644 |
| Rioja, La | Ala | 5 | 0.030 | 1,693 |
| Araba/Álava | Ala | 5 | 0.029 | 1,849 |
| Tarragona | Ala | 10 | 0.023 | 2,133 |
Listed in 16 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 36 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Ala against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.