Aala
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-LAA
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Aala is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “blessings, favours”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Aala mean?
Arabic: spelling of Alaa
“blessings, favours”
The word recurs in the Qur'an's Surah ar-Rahman: 'Which of the favours of your Lord will you deny?'
Meaning borrowed from Alaa.
Is Aala a girl's or a boy's name?
Aala is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aala in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,990among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 32% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Aala, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,009th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 10 girls.
Half of all the girls named Aala in the UK since 1996 were born between 2011 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 31 girls in the UK were given Aala or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,018, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
- Alaa 28
- Aala 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Aala in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 7 | #3,388 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2020 | 8 | #3,009 |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,738 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 10 | #2,618 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
| 2007 | 1 | #7,017 |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #3,047 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 3 | #4,026 |
How popular is Aala in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2017, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
Half of all the girls named Aala in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Aala in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,142 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
Names like Aala
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Abeeha Hafsa Hiba Rahma Ayah Zainab Ayra Amira Aaliyah Safaa Huda
Other spellings of Aala
Names related to Aala
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Aala: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aala, updated 20 October 2026.