Alia
Alia was given to 499 girls in 2025, #587 among girls’ names; 14,028 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,800 Americans named Alia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alia is “a female given name from Arabic.”
Borrowed from Arabic عَالِيَة (ʕāliya). The feminine form of Ali.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alia?
#587 among girls’ names, 2025
Alia rose from #612 in 2015 to #587 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.26 to 0.31 per 1,000.
555 babies in 2019, the peak
Alia peaked in 2019, when 555 girls were given it, #550 among girls’ names. The 499 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 499 | #587 | 0.31 |
| 2024 | 542 | #560 | 0.33 |
| 2023 | 545 | #556 | 0.34 |
| 2022 | 511 | #585 | 0.31 |
| 2021 | 505 | #594 | 0.31 |
| 2020 | 510 | #577 | 0.32 |
| 2019 | 555 | #550 | 0.33 |
| 2018 | 450 | #655 | 0.26 |
| 2017 | 461 | #639 | 0.27 |
| 2016 | 450 | #651 | 0.25 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 472 | #612 | 0.26 |
| 2014 | 384 | #729 | 0.21 |
| 2013 | 381 | #724 | 0.22 |
| 2012 | 363 | #764 | 0.21 |
| 2011 | 380 | #727 | 0.22 |
| 2010 | 384 | #729 | 0.22 |
| 2009 | 368 | #771 | 0.20 |
| 2008 | 294 | #929 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 264 | #1,001 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 287 | #922 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 252 | #970 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 300 | #828 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 275 | #878 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 269 | #856 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 271 | #843 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 318 | #730 | 0.18 |
| 1999 | 253 | #853 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 223 | #931 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 223 | #901 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 208 | #933 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 208 | #905 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 185 | #1,004 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 130 | #1,297 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 144 | #1,205 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 137 | #1,236 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 153 | #1,127 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 129 | #1,231 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 127 | #1,186 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 103 | #1,328 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 141 | #1,067 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 147 | #1,024 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 104 | #1,238 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 112 | #1,169 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 116 | #1,179 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 114 | #1,165 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 109 | #1,206 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 96 | #1,301 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 82 | #1,412 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 106 | #1,170 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 57 | #1,696 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 61 | #1,604 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 52 | #1,733 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 72 | #1,374 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,523 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,509 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,874 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,424 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,050 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,278 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,549 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,477 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,601 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,395 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,877 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,445 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,405 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,829 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,559 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,291 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alia, and how old are they?
13,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 14,028 Americans ever recorded as Alia. The median Alia alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 12,618 people named Alia (12,542 women and girls, 76 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,873 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 15 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 685 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,680 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,230 |
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 Alia born?
The states with the most babies named Alia are Texas, California and New York, with 46% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 87 | #386 | 1.0× |
| California | 80 | #413 | 1.3× |
| New York | 46 | #367 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 29 | #598 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 24 | #437 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #489 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 20 | #390 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 16 | #484 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 13 | #590 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 13 | #515 | 0.8× |
Where Alia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alia is most over-represented in California: since 1915 it was given 1.3 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 Alia 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 312,957 babies since 1880, Alia is the seventh most given (4.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 499 of their 11,395 babies (4.4%), again the seventh 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 Alia
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 Alia and names like it
- Compare Alia and AaliyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAlia peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alia since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Alia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Alia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Alia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.