Ally Girl
How popular is Ally?
#2,117 girl name in 2025
88 baby girls were named Ally in the US in 2025, making it the 2117th most popular girl name.
Ally popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #2,117 for girls (▼ 247 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 88 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-72% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #872 in 2015, #1,373 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1998 (636 girls) |
| Highest rank | #417 in 1998 |
| First recorded | 1985 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Ally counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Allie family of names ranked #373 for girls in 2025 (#358 the year before), with 849 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Allie | 529 | 62% |
| Ally | 88 | 10% |
| Aly | 40 | 5% |
| Ailee | 27 | 3% |
| Alli | 18 | 2% |
| Aili | 35 | 4% |
| Ailey | 25 | 3% |
| Aylee | 24 | 3% |
| Alley | 8 | 1% |
| Allee | 9 | 1% |
| Aleigh | 5 | 1% |
| Aily | 13 | 2% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Ally is most popular
Babies named Ally per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Tennessee: 0.1 per 1,000 (18 girls)
- Mississippi: 0.1 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Texas: 0.1 per 1,000 (81 girls)
- Georgia: 0.1 per 1,000 (19 girls)
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (69 girls)
Ally by decade
Girl names about as popular as Ally
Questions
- Is Ally a boy or girl name?
- Ally is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Ally were girls.
- How popular is the name Ally?
- 88 baby girls were named Ally in the US in 2025, making it the 2117th most popular girl name.
- When was Ally most popular?
- Ally peaked in 1998, when 636 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #417 in 1998.
- How many people are named Ally?
- 10,247 babies have been named Ally in the US since 1880. We estimate about 10,154 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 19.
- Where is Ally most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Ally was most common in Tennessee, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.