Alaa
Alaa is given to both girls and boys: 49 girls and 6 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,211 among girls’ names and #10,734 among boys’, #5,272 among all names counting both); 1,989 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,960 Americans named Alaa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alaa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alaa?
#3,211 among girls’ names, 2025
Alaa fell from #3,025 in 2015 to #3,211 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 31.4 to 30.5 per million.
69 babies in 2017, the peak
Alaa peaked in 2017, when 69 babies were given it (61 girls, #2,780 among girls’ names). The 55 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 80% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,211 | 6 | #10,734 |
| 2024 | 59 | #2,820 | 8 | #9,012 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,910 | 7 | #9,794 |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,175 | 8 | #9,010 |
| 2021 | 48 | #3,297 | 7 | #9,762 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,339 | 6 | #10,647 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,815 | 8 | #8,914 |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,108 | 8 | #8,842 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,780 | 8 | #8,869 |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,140 | 12 | #6,730 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 56 | #3,025 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,227 | 5 | #12,177 |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,269 | 9 | #8,133 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,467 | 8 | #8,880 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,604 | 10 | #7,512 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,184 | 9 | #8,160 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,685 | 12 | #6,813 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,864 | 6 | #11,086 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,947 | 8 | #8,942 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,465 | 7 | #9,603 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,372 | 6 | #10,175 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,900 | 13 | #5,815 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,942 | 10 | #6,722 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,497 | 15 | #4,914 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,413 | 17 | #4,476 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,936 | 14 | #5,040 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,506 | 10 | #6,046 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,831 | 13 | #4,876 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,895 | 12 | #4,960 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,502 | 12 | #4,884 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,488 | 23 | #3,018 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,237 | 24 | #2,947 |
| 1993 | 26 | #3,983 | 13 | #4,444 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,768 | 20 | #3,215 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,365 | 13 | #4,231 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,378 | 11 | #4,669 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,850 | 15 | #3,614 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,696 | 10 | #4,451 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,857 | 8 | #4,967 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,558 | 11 | #3,883 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,464 | 5 | #6,542 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,546 | 11 | #3,702 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,825 | 8 | #4,505 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,916 | 6 | #5,637 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,891 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 7 | #4,945 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,074 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Alaa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,989 Americans recorded as Alaa, 77% are girls and 23% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Alaa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alaa, and how old are they?
1,960 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,989 Americans ever recorded as Alaa. The median Alaa alive today is 18 years old; half are between 9 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 4,362 people named Alaa (2,370 women and girls, 1,992 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,647 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 11 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 473 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 717 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 757 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Alaa born?
The states with the most babies named Alaa are Michigan, New York and Illinois, with 82% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 9 | #788 | 3.5× |
| New York | 8 | #1,532 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,246 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,399 | 0.1× |
Where Alaa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alaa is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1979 it was given 3.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alaa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 122,746 babies since 1880, Alaa is the eighth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 55 of their 8,212 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alaa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alaa and names like it
- Compare Alaa and AylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAlaa peaked in 2017.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alaa since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Alaa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Alaa alive today were born 2013-2025.
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