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Alea

#2,958 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Aaliyah

Alea has been given to 4,085 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #2,958 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 156 recorded.

Babies named Alea, 2025

1 in 59,200

Alea over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alea: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Aaliyah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alea means

Alea is a variant of Aaliyah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Alea → Aaliyah → عَالِيَة → عَالٍ. The family’s meaning is “high, tall”, recorded in Arabic with the source elements عَالٍ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aaliyah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,085 girls were recorded with the name Alea between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 156 in 2000; its best national rank was #1,227 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,749 in 2020 to #2,958 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,620 in 2015 to #2,958 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alea?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 59,200
56 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 28,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,958
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alea sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 41,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aleas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alea was born before 2002 — so the typical Alea is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,085
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.7% of all recorded uses (1,254).

Is Alea rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+164
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−209
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−338
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.82×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.9%
Peak was 2000 (156)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,227
1999

Spellings of Alea

Alea is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 19.4% against Alea's 0.09%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Alea is used

Across 1910–2025, Alea was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 78,893 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 9,091
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Washington1 in 33,333
  4. 4Colorado1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6New York1 in 50,000
  7. 7Arizona1 in 100,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Alea has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alea around the world

Where Alea ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2025
    #1,639
    in 2025
  • France
    1904–2025
    #2,876
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,435
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1980–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Alea by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,958
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 209
Best rank ever
#1,227
1999
Peak year
2000
156 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,085
Count in 2025
56

Names similar to Alea

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Alea

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alea, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Alea

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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