Alea
Alea was given to 56 girls in 2025, #2,958 among girls’ names; 4,085 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,020 Americans named Alea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 15 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alea?
#2,958 among girls’ names, 2025
Alea fell from #2,620 in 2015 to #2,958 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 38.1 to 34.8 per million.
156 babies in 2000, the peak
Alea peaked in 2000, when 156 girls were given it, #1,253 among girls’ names. The 56 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,958 | 34.8 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,122 | 31.5 |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,732 | 39.3 |
| 2022 | 55 | #2,996 | 33.5 |
| 2021 | 70 | #2,511 | 42.7 |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,749 | 37.1 |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,681 | 38.1 |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,678 | 37.6 |
| 2017 | 47 | #3,346 | 27.2 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,282 | 27.7 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 68 | #2,620 | 38.1 |
| 2014 | 75 | #2,414 | 42.0 |
| 2013 | 101 | #1,953 | 57.6 |
| 2012 | 93 | #2,065 | 52.8 |
| 2011 | 111 | #1,818 | 63.1 |
| 2010 | 112 | #1,818 | 63.0 |
| 2009 | 134 | #1,660 | 72.9 |
| 2008 | 113 | #1,880 | 59.8 |
| 2007 | 124 | #1,744 | 64.5 |
| 2006 | 132 | #1,615 | 69.4 |
| 2005 | 129 | #1,576 | 69.8 |
| 2004 | 112 | #1,726 | 61.0 |
| 2003 | 111 | #1,709 | 60.8 |
| 2002 | 113 | #1,631 | 62.9 |
| 2001 | 130 | #1,444 | 72.2 |
| 2000 | 156 | #1,253 | 85.9 |
| 1999 | 154 | #1,227 | 86.8 |
| 1998 | 133 | #1,322 | 75.3 |
| 1997 | 125 | #1,367 | 71.8 |
| 1996 | 125 | #1,346 | 71.3 |
| 1995 | 113 | #1,429 | 64.3 |
| 1994 | 95 | #1,589 | 53.2 |
| 1993 | 74 | #1,894 | 40.9 |
| 1992 | 80 | #1,795 | 43.4 |
| 1991 | 70 | #1,973 | 37.3 |
| 1990 | 71 | #1,934 | 37.4 |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,763 | 21.7 |
| 1988 | 51 | #2,211 | 28.6 |
| 1987 | 45 | #2,331 | 25.9 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,951 | 32.6 |
| 1985 | 41 | #2,399 | 23.8 |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,227 | 26.1 |
| 1983 | 57 | #1,838 | 34.1 |
| 1982 | 48 | #2,115 | 28.3 |
| 1981 | 50 | #2,061 | 30.0 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,135 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,079 | 16.8 |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,573 | 21.5 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,761 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,909 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,156 | 15.1 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,726 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,915 | 15.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,568 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,623 | 4.2 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,646 | 4.3 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,198 | 5.9 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,543 | 4.7 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,575 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alea, and how old are they?
4,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,085 Americans ever recorded as Alea. The median Alea alive today is 24 years old; half are between 15 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 3,735 people named Alea (3,697 women and girls, 38 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,695 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 194 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,030 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,960 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 818 |
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 Alea born?
The states with the most babies named Alea are Texas, California and New York, with 81% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,398 | 0.4× |
| California | 7 | #2,503 | 0.8× |
| New York | 7 | #1,662 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,166 | 0.6× |
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 Alea with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Alea?
Alea is a less common spelling of Aleah: SSA has recorded 4,085 Alea and 16,592 Aleah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 122,861 babies since 1880, Alea is the eighth most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 56 of their 7,545 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 Alea
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 Alea and names like it
- Compare Alea and AleahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAlea peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alea since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Alea.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alea alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.