# Alaa (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/alaa/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,989 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 464 / 1,525 (77% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 555, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 43 | 3,605 |
| 2012 | 46 | 3,468 |
| 2013 | 49 | 3,270 |
| 2014 | 50 | 3,229 |
| 2015 | 56 | 3,025 |
| 2016 | 52 | 3,140 |
| 2017 | 61 | 2,780 |
| 2018 | 52 | 3,109 |
| 2019 | 59 | 2,815 |
| 2020 | 46 | 3,339 |
| 2021 | 48 | 3,298 |
| 2022 | 51 | 3,176 |
| 2023 | 38 | 3,912 |
| 2024 | 59 | 2,820 |
| 2025 | 49 | 3,211 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 9 | 8,166 |
| 2011 | 10 | 7,519 |
| 2012 | 8 | 8,886 |
| 2013 | 9 | 8,138 |
| 2014 | 5 | 12,183 |
| 2016 | 12 | 6,735 |
| 2017 | 8 | 8,874 |
| 2018 | 8 | 8,848 |
| 2019 | 8 | 8,919 |
| 2020 | 6 | 10,653 |
| 2021 | 7 | 9,767 |
| 2022 | 8 | 9,015 |
| 2023 | 7 | 9,799 |
| 2024 | 8 | 9,017 |
| 2025 | 6 | 10,738 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 18 | 1,608 |
| 2012 | 14 | 1,991 |
| 2013 | 20 | 1,537 |
| 2014 | 27 | 1,234 |
| 2015 | 24 | 1,362 |
| 2016 | 29 | 1,172 |
| 2017 | 21 | 1,512 |
| 2018 | 27 | 1,234 |
| 2019 | 22 | 1,389 |
| 2020 | 25 | 1,267 |
| 2021 | 21 | 1,454 |
| 2022 | 18 | 1,621 |
| 2023 | 16 | 1,774 |
| 2024 | 19 | 1,603 |
| 2025 | 28 | 1,166 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 4 | 2,357 |
| 1997 | 3 | 2,859 |
| 1998 | 4 | 2,419 |
| 1999 | 6 | 1,850 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3,651 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2010 | 4 | 3,865 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4,608 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,275 |

## People named Alaa

- Alaa Al Aswany, Egyptian writer
- Ala ad-Din Tekish, 12th-century Khwarazm Shah
- Tarek Alaa, Egyptian association football player (born 2002)
- Alaa Abd El-Fatah, Egyptian human rights activist
- Alaa Abdul-Zahra, footballer
- Alaa Mayhoub, Egyptian footballer
- Ala Al-Sasi, footballer
- Alaa Abdelnaby, Egyptian-American basketball player
- Alaa Mubarak, Egyptian businessman
- Alaa Thabet, Egyptian journalist
- Alaa El-Hamouly, Footballer (1930-1984)
- Ala-ud-Din Masud Shah, 7th Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.