girls:
16 births since 1916
#5700 (0th percentile)
boys:
175 births since 1973
#4411 (4th percentile)
overall:
191 births since 1916
#7548 (2nd percentile)
The name Allah is the #7,548 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 191 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 2.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,411 (3.8% percentile) for all time with 175 births since 1973. For girls, it ranks #5,700 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1916.
Allah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (1916 for girls and 1973 for boys). Birth data for Allah is available in 28 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023 (25 years for boys and 3 years for girls). 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 Allah has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 91.6% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1973, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1916 to 1972), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 1973 to 2023).
For boys, Allah reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #668) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Allah ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 59.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Allah reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #607) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1923.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Allah".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Allah", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 6 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Alaa" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Alaa..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Allah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.9% confident that Allah is pronounced as AH-luh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-luh, at 32.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AA1 L AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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