Alya Girl
How popular is Alya?
#1,334 girl name in 2025
167 baby girls were named Alya in the US in 2025, making it the 1334th most popular girl name.
Alya popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,334 for girls (▼ 55 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 167 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+174% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,846 in 2015, #1,474 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2021 (190 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1,236 in 2021 |
| First recorded | 1973 |
| 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 |
Alya counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Alia family of names ranked #336 for girls in 2025 (#315 the year before), with 976 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Alia | 499 | 51% |
| Aliah | 193 | 20% |
| Alya | 167 | 17% |
| Alyah | 58 | 6% |
| Aalia | 19 | 2% |
| Aaliah | 9 | 1% |
| Aalyah | 8 | 1% |
| Alliah | 7 | 1% |
| Allia | 5 | 1% |
| Ahlia | 6 | 1% |
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 Alya is most popular
Babies named Alya per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Jersey: 0.2 per 1,000 (40 girls)
- New York: 0.2 per 1,000 (77 girls)
- Florida: 0.2 per 1,000 (79 girls)
- Colorado: 0.2 per 1,000 (19 girls)
- California: 0.2 per 1,000 (127 girls)
Alya by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 10 | #8,421 |
| 1980s | 50 | #5,890 |
| 1990s | 148 | #4,633 |
| 2000s | 357 | #3,448 |
| 2010s | 688 | #1,802 |
| 2020s | 989 | #1,236 |
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Questions
- Is Alya a boy or girl name?
- Alya is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Alya were girls.
- How popular is the name Alya?
- 167 baby girls were named Alya in the US in 2025, making it the 1334th most popular girl name.
- When was Alya most popular?
- Alya peaked in 2021, when 190 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,236 in 2021.
- How many people are named Alya?
- 2,242 babies have been named Alya in the US since 1880. We estimate about 2,228 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 8.
- Where is Alya most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Alya was most common in New Jersey, at 0.2 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.