Alaa

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Alaa: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Alaa: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #734 in 2018, and it stood at #736 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#734highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
1997	#1958
1998	#2165
1999	#2770
2000	#3247
2001	#1439
2002	#2105
2003	#1383
2004	#2530
2005	#1406
2006	#1435
2007	#1656
2008	#1914
2009	#1248
2010	#1429
2011	#1608
2012	#1991
2013	#1537
2014	#1234
2015	#1362
2016	#1172
2017	#1512
2018	#1234
2019	#1389
2020	#1267
2021	#1454
2022	#1621
2023	#1774
2024	#1603

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #736 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1603 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2683 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2007–2024
Highest recorded position: #734 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2018 (recorded 2007–2024).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1603 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Alaa appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 479 births with the name.

Alaa across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Alaa's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#1850 (1999)	#4270 (2024)	12 of 29	44 (1996–2024)	6 (1999)
England and Wales · Girls	#2683 (1996)	#1172 (2016)	#1603 (2024)	29 of 29	479 (1996–2024)	29 (2016)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#842 (2007)	#734 (2018)	#736 (2024)	5 of 18	17 (2007–2024)	4 (2018)

Alaa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Alaa in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	25	4 of 10	6
2000s	132	10 of 10	13
2010sbusiest	223	10 of 10	22
2020s	99	5 of 10	20

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 22 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Alaa appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #734 in Republic of Ireland in 2018.

Alaa's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1603	19	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#4270	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1774	16	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1621	18	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1454	21	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1267	25	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1389	22	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1234	27	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1512	21	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1172	29	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1362	24	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1234	27	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1537	20	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1991	14	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1608	18	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1429	21	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1248	24	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1914	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1656	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1435	17	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1406	16	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2530	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1383	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2105	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1439	13	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1850	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2165	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1958	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #734, first reached in 2018.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 29 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, and 11 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Al-Ameen · #1962, 12y
Al-Amin · #1991, 22y
Alaia · #262, 20y
Alain · #249, 15y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Areesha · #734, 24y
Kaydee · #734, 27y
Flavia · #736, 29y
Isadora · #736, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Chace · #734, 24y
Kaydee · #734, 27y
Anam · #735, 29y
Eesha · #735, 28y

Alaa was ranked #734 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2018. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Alaa and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Alaa without appearing here.

Alaa moved ahead of

Denise Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1991 and #1720 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1537 and #4739.
Pauline Compare
In 2008 they stood at #1914 and #1718 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1248 and #3936.
Evan Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2770 and #2770 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1439 and #3998.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #3247 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1439 and #3998.

Moved ahead of Alaa

Arlo Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1850 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #3651 and #875.
Kasper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1850 and #2425 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #3651 and #1347.
Theodor Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1850 and #2425 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #3651 and #1732.
Ida Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1383 and #1472 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #2530 and #1209.

Moved the opposite way to Alaa

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaa went from #2683 to #1603 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaa went from #2683 to #1603 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaa went from #2683 to #1603 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Alaa went from #2357 to #4270 while Albie went from #853 to #19.

Moved the same way as Alaa

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Alaa went from #2357 to #4270 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaa went from #2683 to #1603 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Alaa went from #2357 to #4270 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Alaa went from #2357 to #4270 and Alan from #163 to #592.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #734 in Republic of Ireland in 2018. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Alaa

Alaa at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Alaa across 3 official records

Alaa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Alaa appears in

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Alaa across 3 official records

Alaa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Alaa and the names beside it

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