girls:
766 births since 1889
#4950 (13th percentile)
boys:
142 births since 1958
#4444 (3rd percentile)
overall:
908 births since 1889
#6831 (12th percentile)
The name Ala is the #6,831 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 908 recorded births since 1889. This represents the 11.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,950 (13.4% percentile) for all time with 766 births since 1889. For boys, it ranks #4,444 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 142 births since 1958.
Ala first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1889 (1889 for girls and 1958 for boys). Birth data for Ala is available in 78 out of the 135 years between 1889 and 2023 (74 years for girls and 22 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ala has been given predominantly to girls, with 84.4% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Ala were girls.
For girls, Ala reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #565) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 26 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Ala ranks #938 for girls (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 30.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ala reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #750) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ala".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Ala. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.8% confident that Ala is pronounced as AH-luh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AY-luh, at 31.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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