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Alla

Gender
Girl
Origin
Slavic
US rank, 2025
#14,937 for girls

Alla is a girls' name of Slavic origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

What does Alla mean?

Slavic

A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name А́лла (Álla)

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Alla a girl's or a boy's name?

Alla is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Alla in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2006, with 7 girls.

1997Busiest: 7 in 20062011
Alla in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20114#4,980
20100–
20097#3,201
20080–
20070–
20067#2,940
20055#3,543
20043#4,789
20030–
20020–
20016#2,587
20000–
19990–
19980–
19973#3,991

How popular is Alla in the US?

Rank in 2025
#14,937among girls
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 320,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Alla, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 1927, with 25 girls.

Half of all the girls named Alla in the US since 1880 were born between 1918 and 1995, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 59 girls in the US were given Alla or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,353, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.

1880Busiest: 25 in 19272025
Alla in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
20240–
20235#15,188
20226#13,586
20219#10,287
202010#9,541
20190–
201811#9,146
20179#10,685
201612#8,872
20155#16,413
201412#8,961
20136#14,577
20128#12,193
20115#16,756
20108#12,270
200913#8,884
200810#10,802
200713#9,003
200618#6,838
200513#8,325
20048#11,617
200311#9,043
200211#8,831
200122#5,169
200019#5,700
199916#6,185
199811#8,011
199711#7,737
19968#9,576
199512#7,036
199412#7,091
199311#7,491
199212#7,060
19919#8,580
19905#12,952
19896#10,841
19886#10,381
19876#9,820
19860–
19850–
19845#10,417
19830–
19820–
19810–
19800–
19790–
19780–
19770–
19760–
19750–
19740–
19730–
19720–
19710–
19700–
19690–
19685#7,014
19670–
19660–
19650–
19640–
19635#6,591
19620–
19610–
19600–
19590–
19580–
19575#6,085
19565#5,951
19556#5,207
19545#5,751
19530–
19525#5,561
19518#4,010
19509#3,660
19498#3,891
19480–
194711#3,238
19467#3,993
19456#4,023
19447#3,685
194311#2,860
194210#2,984
19417#3,557
19405#4,347
193913#2,300
193813#2,340
19379#2,939
193611#2,520
193518#1,845
193418#1,834
193323#1,552
193217#1,956
193112#2,425
193017#2,022
192917#2,010
192820#1,896
192725#1,668
192621#1,882
192517#2,190
192424#1,770
192322#1,840
192217#2,186
192122#1,867
192023#1,751
191923#1,698
191823#1,690
191720#1,773
191614#2,246
191520#1,672
191411#2,125
191316#1,465
191212#1,620
19119#1,656
19106#2,140
190913#1,152
190812#1,203
190712#1,142
19060–
19050–
19049#1,250
19035#1,791
19027#1,438
190113#918
19009#1,318
18997#1,277
18989#1,171
18979#1,094
18960–
18957#1,299
18946#1,352
18937#1,175
18927#1,171
18917#1,093
18905#1,337
18897#1,024
18880–
18876#1,036
18860–
18850–
18840–
18835#920
18820–
18817#679
18806#738

Names like Alla

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Alla

Names related to Alla

More Slavic names

Every Slavic name

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, “Alla: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alla, updated 20 October 2026.