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Alla

#15,051 in 2025Girls' name

Russian/Ukrainian name; also a Latvian short form

Alla has been given to 1,202 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #15,051 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1927, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Alla, 2025

1 in 663,000

Alla over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alla: meaning, origin, and history

Russian/Ukrainian name; also a Latvian short form

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alla means

Alla has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Alla

The English-language dictionary documents Alla as a transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian name А́лла. Its oldest meaning is uncertain. A Latin-letter spelling does not remove that uncertainty or make the name a literal translation of Aleksandra.

The Latvian entry records another possible formation: shortening Aleksandra, alongside borrowing the Russian name. That short-form connection belongs to the Latvian discussion.

Origin, language, and formation

Alla is used in English and Latvian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aleksandra and А́лла.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,192 girls were recorded with the name Alla between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1927; its best national rank was #683 in 1881.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,584 in 2020 to #15,051 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #16,560 in 2015 to #15,051 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Alla between 1986 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1986; its best national rank was #6,745 in 1986.

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 Alla?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,051
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alla 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Allas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alla was born before 1933 — so the typical Alla is around 92 today.

Median birth year
1933
About 92 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
17.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
432
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 17.4% of all recorded uses (208).

Is Alla 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
−5,467
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,509
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.0%
Peak was 1927 (25)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#683
1881

Spellings of Alla

Alla is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 15.2% against Alla's 0.02%.

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 Alla is used

Across 1910–2025, Alla was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 501,348 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in —
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —
  4. 4Washington1 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. Alla has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alla around the world

Where Alla 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
    1997–2011
    #4,764
    in 2011
  • France
    1944–2024
    #5,179
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1999–1999
    #2,493
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1959–2008
    #533
    in 2008

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.

Alla by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,051
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,467
Best rank ever
#683
1881
Peak year
1927
25 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,192
Count in 2025
5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,745
1986
Peak year
1986
5 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alla

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

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Sibling names for Alla

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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