Aleja

Girls' name

Diminutive of Alejandra

Aleja has been given to 175 babies in the U.S. since 1994. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2002, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Aleja, 2024

1 in 557,000

Aleja over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aleja: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Alejandra

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aleja means

Aleja is a diminutive of Alejandra.

Origin, language, and formation

Aleja is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alejandra.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 175 girls were recorded with the name Aleja between 1994 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2002; its best national rank was #7,453 in 2002.

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 Aleja?

Aleja had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 557,000; 6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 270,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 386,177 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Aleja 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aleja. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alejas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aleja was born before 2005 — so the typical Aleja is around 20 today.

Median birth year: 2005; About 20 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 51.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 79.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 175; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 51.4% of all recorded uses (90).

Is Aleja 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2002 (14)
Years since peak: 23; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 34.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,453; 2002

Spellings of Aleja

Aleja is not the most common spelling — Alma is, with 12.4% against Aleja's 0.01%.

Alma12.4%163,723
Lena11.1%146,479
Alexa10.0%131,551
Elena8.2%108,013
Alana5.2%68,264
Alexia3.5%46,192
Alina3.4%45,387
Lela3.3%43,005

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 Aleja is used

Across 1910–2025, Aleja was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —

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. Aleja has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aleja by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #7,453; 2002
Peak year: 2002; 14 that year
First recorded: 1994
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 175
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Aleja

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

Aleni Alera Alesi Aleeha Aleera Aleny Alenah Aleila Aleria Alette Aleea Aleska Aleli Aleysa Alexx Aleka Alenia Aleira Aleisa Aleyssa Aleynah Aleanna Aleyza Aleiya

Sibling names for Aleja

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

For a sister

Iyana Lisbeth Vanesa Shakira Kaiya Shreya Delanie Magaly

For a brother

Dallin Zakary Keyon Kelton Donavan Jaylon Jaylin Destin

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