Ala — #8420 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Ala

The Social Security Administration has registered 779 babies named Ala between 1889 and 2024, spanning 136 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ala currently holds the #8420 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 24 babies received it in a single year. Ala is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 142 additional births since 1958.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ala performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 157 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Ala shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ala in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 779 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.