Alley — #8979 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Alley

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,070 babies named Alley between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Alley currently holds the #8979 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 66 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alley performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 460 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Alley shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 28 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Alley in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alley 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 1,070 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.