Alegria
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ah-leh-GREE-ah
- Origin
- Spanish
- US rank, 2025
- #7,489 for girls
Alegria is a girls' name of Spanish origin, meaning “joy, happiness”. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).
What does Alegria mean?
Spanish: Spanish word alegría
“joy, happiness”
The Spanish word for joy, used as a name much like the English Joy.
Is Alegria a girl's or a boy's name?
Alegria is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Alegria in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,489th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14 about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Alegria, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 1975.
2025 had more girls named Alegria than any year since 2011.
Half of all the girls named Alegria in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Alegria in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,489 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,852 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,675 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,886 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,254 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,761 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,501 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,403 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,417 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,390 |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,065 |
Names like Alegria
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amelia, Alivia, Aria, Analia, Amalia, Arabella, Alessia, Sophia, Ariella, Ximena, Aliana, Avianna
Names related to Alegria
More Spanish names
Santiago, Lola, Xavier, Amaya, Alaia, Diego, Rio, Cruz, Elian, Jesus, Javier, Esmeralda, Amayah, Reina, Cesar, Sierra
Sources
Figures from 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, “Alegria: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alegria, updated 20 October 2026.