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Alia

#587 in 2025Girls' name

High, tall, through عَالِيَة

Alia has been given to 14,028 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #587 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 555 recorded.

Babies named Alia, 2025

1 in 6,640

Alia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alia: meaning, origin, and history

High, tall, through عَالِيَة

Arabic

What Alia means

Alia belongs to the name family reached through Alia → عَالِيَة → عَالٍ. Its meaning is “high, tall”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Arabic عَالِيَة (ʕāliya). The feminine form of Ali.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Alia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Alia is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Alia comes through Arabic عَالِيَة.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ali, عَالِيَة and عَالٍ.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,028 girls were recorded with the name Alia between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 555 in 2019; its best national rank was #550 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #577 in 2020 to #587 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #612 in 2015 to #587 in 2025.

How common is Alia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 6,640
499 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,220
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#587
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,606 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alia 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 1001%
School of 5007%

Put another way: gather 4,606 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alia was born before 2010 — so the typical Alia is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
13,989
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.5% of all recorded uses (4,280).

Is Alia 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
−27
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−10
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+25
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.06×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
89.9%
Peak was 2019 (555)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#550
2019

Spellings of Alia

Alia is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 10.9% against Alia's 0.16%.

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 Alia is used

Across 2016–2025, Alia was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 952 girls, against 1 in 2,828 across all states with data. It was least common in Arkansas (1 in 20,000).

5105 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 952
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 1,639
  3. 3New York1 in 1,754
  4. 4Nevada1 in 1,786
  5. 5California1 in 2,041
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 2,041
  7. 7Arizona1 in 2,128
  8. 8Florida1 in 2,222

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.

Geographically, Alia is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 75% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Alia around the world

Where Alia 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
    1996–2025
    #747
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1983–2025
    #429
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2016–2021
    #446
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    1997–2025
    #544
    in 2025
  • France
    1901–2025
    #231
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2024–2024
    #446
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #383
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1967–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Alia in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Alia. Linked forms have their own page here.

AaliaAliya

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Alia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#587
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 10
Best rank ever
#550
2019
Peak year
2019
555 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,028
Count in 2025
499

Names similar to Alia

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

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Names with a curve like Alia

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

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Sibling names for Alia

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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