# Aly (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/aly/  
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 | 2,197 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 714 / 1,483 (68% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 62, 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 | 59 | 2,911 |
| 2012 | 66 | 2,681 |
| 2013 | 60 | 2,839 |
| 2014 | 57 | 2,970 |
| 2015 | 70 | 2,557 |
| 2016 | 77 | 2,414 |
| 2017 | 61 | 2,782 |
| 2018 | 54 | 3,007 |
| 2019 | 62 | 2,731 |
| 2020 | 49 | 3,181 |
| 2021 | 51 | 3,158 |
| 2022 | 58 | 2,894 |
| 2023 | 39 | 3,840 |
| 2024 | 38 | 3,896 |
| 2025 | 40 | 3,716 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 18 | 4,988 |
| 2012 | 21 | 4,538 |
| 2013 | 11 | 7,050 |
| 2014 | 19 | 4,878 |
| 2015 | 22 | 4,411 |
| 2016 | 23 | 4,334 |
| 2017 | 19 | 4,944 |
| 2018 | 19 | 4,928 |
| 2019 | 21 | 4,646 |
| 2020 | 12 | 6,641 |
| 2021 | 18 | 5,117 |
| 2022 | 24 | 4,309 |
| 2023 | 15 | 5,943 |
| 2024 | 22 | 4,574 |
| 2025 | 14 | 6,162 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | 2,074 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3,467 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3,651 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3,849 |
| 2009 | 4 | 3,744 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,039 |
| 2014 | 5 | 3,362 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2017 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2023 | 5 | 3,523 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,254 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,275 |

## People named Aly

- Aly Cissokho, French association football player
- Aly Raisman, American artistic gymnast
- Aly Zaker, Bangladeshi actor, writer, freedom fighter, entrepreneur, photographer, Trustee of Liberat

## 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.