Aly
Aly is given to both girls and boys: 40 girls and 14 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,715 among girls’ names and #6,159 among boys’, #5,341 among all names counting both); 2,197 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,160 Americans named Aly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aly mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aly is “a diminutive of the female given name Alison, Alyssa, or Alexandra.”
Also “a male given name from Arabic, a variant spelling of the Muslim Ali.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aly?
#3,715 among girls’ names, 2025
Aly fell from #2,557 in 2015 to #3,715 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 39.2 to 24.9 per million.
100 babies in 2016, the peak
Aly peaked in 2016, when 100 babies were given it (77 girls, #2,414 among girls’ names). The 54 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 54% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,715 | 14 | #6,159 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,896 | 22 | #4,570 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,838 | 15 | #5,938 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,894 | 24 | #4,305 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,158 | 18 | #5,112 |
| 2020 | 49 | #3,181 | 12 | #6,637 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,731 | 21 | #4,642 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,006 | 19 | #4,924 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,782 | 19 | #4,940 |
| 2016 | 77 | #2,414 | 23 | #4,333 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | #2,557 | 22 | #4,409 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,968 | 19 | #4,874 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,838 | 11 | #7,045 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,681 | 21 | #4,535 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,910 | 18 | #4,986 |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,010 | 15 | #5,746 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,305 | 17 | #5,339 |
| 2008 | 75 | #2,511 | 19 | #4,903 |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,097 | 16 | #5,439 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,635 | 17 | #5,080 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,865 | 21 | #4,194 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,388 | 17 | #4,795 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,944 | 21 | #3,977 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,844 | 24 | #3,552 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,625 | 24 | #3,510 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,153 | 29 | #2,990 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,224 | 15 | #4,539 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,806 | 22 | #3,389 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,496 | 11 | #5,291 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,616 | 11 | #5,196 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,681 | 14 | #4,284 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,621 | 14 | #4,291 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,043 | 10 | #5,362 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,081 | 11 | #4,877 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,614 | 9 | #5,531 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,235 | 13 | #4,171 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,463 | 8 | #5,635 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,409 | 9 | #4,792 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,368 | 8 | #4,975 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,550 | 8 | #4,860 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 6 | #5,804 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #6,346 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 8 | #4,515 | |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,469 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 6 | #5,379 | |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,796 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,469 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,486 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 7 | #3,854 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 5 | #4,059 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 6 | #3,461 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 5 | #3,726 |
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 Aly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,197 Americans recorded as Aly, 68% are girls and 32% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Aly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aly, and how old are they?
2,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,197 Americans ever recorded as Aly. The median Aly alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 3,854 people named Aly (2,568 women and girls, 1,286 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,808 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Aly rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 11 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 27 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 236 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 941 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 949 |
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 Aly born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,648 | 0.8× |
| California | 5 | #3,131 | 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 Aly 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 95,035 babies since 1880, Aly is the eighth most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 5,339 babies (1.0%), 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 Aly
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 Aly and names like it
- Compare Aly and AylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAly peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aly since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Aly.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aly alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.