Alla
Alla was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,051 among girls’ names; 1,202 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alla mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alla is “a transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name А́лла (Álla)”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alla?
#15,051 among girls’ names, 2025
Alla rose from #16,560 in 2015 to #15,051 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 3.1 per million.
25 babies in 1927, the peak
Alla peaked in 1927, when 25 girls were given it, #1,671 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,051 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,303 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,693 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,326 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,584 | 6.2 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,180 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,746 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,910 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,560 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,004 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #14,691 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,262 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,908 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,333 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,914 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,843 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,029 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,866 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,351 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,671 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,069 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,862 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,185 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,706 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,196 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,028 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,762 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,610 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,059 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,112 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,505 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,073 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,610 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,017 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,891 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,408 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,862 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,463 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,031 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,603 | 2.6 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,091 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #5,970 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,219 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,759 | 2.6 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,570 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,017 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,669 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,896 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,244 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,999 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,032 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,689 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,864 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 10 | #2,989 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,567 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,363 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,301 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,342 | 11.8 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,945 | 8.5 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,521 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,846 | 17.2 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,834 | 17.2 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,552 | 22.8 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,956 | 15.9 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,426 | 11.3 |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,024 | 15.1 |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,010 | 15.2 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,898 | 17.3 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,671 | 21.0 |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,882 | 17.7 |
| 1925 | 17 | #2,195 | 14.0 |
| 1924 | 24 | #1,770 | 19.2 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,843 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,188 | 14.2 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,867 | 17.8 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,753 | 19.2 |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,698 | 20.4 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,693 | 19.9 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,775 | 18.5 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,250 | 13.4 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,675 | 20.3 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,129 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,468 | 25.6 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,620 | 21.5 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,662 | 21.5 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,149 | 15.1 |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,153 | 37.4 |
| 1908 | 12 | #1,209 | 35.9 |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,143 | 37.7 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,254 | 32.7 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,798 | 19.1 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,444 | 26.5 |
| 1901 | 13 | #919 | 54.3 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,322 | 30.0 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,283 | 30.0 |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,173 | 34.8 |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,094 | 38.4 |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,302 | 30.0 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,354 | 26.9 |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,178 | 32.9 |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,172 | 33.0 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,097 | 37.7 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,338 | 26.3 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,027 | 39.2 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,036 | 41.1 |
| 1883 | 5 | #922 | 44.5 |
| 1881 | 7 | #683 | 76.1 |
| 1880 | 6 | #742 | 65.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alla has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 109 years of records.
Girls and boys named Alla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alla, and how old are they?
An estimated 501 Americans named Alla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (42% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 18 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 8,617 people named Alla (8,429 women and girls, 188 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 533 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16.2 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 166,103 babies since 1880, Alla is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 7,935 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 Alla
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 Alla and names like it
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