Alia

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Alia: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #355 in 2017, and it stood at #544 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
51times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#355highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#717
1997	#750
1998	#683
1999	#580
2000	#582
2001	#696
2002	#656
2003	#759
2004	#638
2005	#866
2006	#855
2007	#1073
2008	#899
2009	#795
2010	#647
2011	#738
2012	#825
2013	#569
2014	#597
2015	#656
2016	#475
2017	#565
2018	#657
2019	#590
2020	#604
2021	#747
2022	#706
2023	#754
2024	#483

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: #447 among girls in Norway, #476 among girls in Scotland, #483 among girls in England and Wales, #556 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #717 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 recorded2016–2021
Highest recorded position: #355 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2017 (recorded 2016–2021).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #544 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Alia 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 1,476 births with the name.

Alia 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.

Alia'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 · Girls	#717 (1996)	#475 (2016)	#483 (2024)	29 of 29	1,476 (1996–2024)	92 (2016)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#576 (1997)	#444 (2020)	#544 (2025)	15 of 29	77 (1997–2025)	8 (2020)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#440 (2016)	#355 (2017)	#446 (2021)	5 of 6	16 (2016–2021)	4 (2017)

Alia 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 Alia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	145	4 of 10	36
2000s	380	10 of 10	38
2010sbusiest	655	10 of 10	66
2020s	296	5 of 10	59

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 66 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births rose by 36, from 47 to 83.

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

Alia 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 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #355 in Northern Ireland in 2017.

Alia'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	#483	83	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#754	47	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#706	52	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#747	50	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#604	64	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#590	67	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#657	61	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#565	76	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#475	92	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#656	62	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#597	69	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#569	72	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#825	46	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#738	52	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#647	58	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#795	44	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#899	36	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1073	27	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#855	35	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#866	32	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#638	47	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#759	36	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#656	41	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#696	36	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#582	46	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#580	47	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#683	35	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#750	31	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#717	32	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#355	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#447	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#556	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#444	8	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	7	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#524	7	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	7	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#612	6	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#476	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #355, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 92 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 28 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.

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Aliana · #871, 18y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 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.

Ela · #372, 30y
Yara · #328, 30y
Amalia · #300, 33y
Kaya · #294, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Akram · #355, 30y
Harleigh · #355, 29y
Jess · #355, 31y
Laney · #355, 27y

Alia was ranked #355 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2017. 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.

Alia 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 Alia without appearing here.

Alia moved ahead of

Suzanne Compare
In 2005 they stood at #866 and #745 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #855 and #1585.
Kylie Compare
In 2008 they stood at #899 and #899 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #795 and #1411.
Bridget Compare
In 2023 they stood at #754 and #694 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #483 and #1007.
Roisin Compare
In 2015 they stood at #656 and #643 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #475 and #975.

Moved ahead of Alia

Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #738 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #825 and #284.
Wendy Compare
In 2021 they stood at #444 and #834 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #905 and #502.
Maja Compare
In 2005 they stood at #866 and #951 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #855 and #456.
Ivy Compare
In 2004 they stood at #638 and #758 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #866 and #494.

Moved the same way as Alia

Barbara Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Alia went from #576 to #856 and Barbara from #363 to #856.
Kelly Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Alia went from #576 to #856 and Kelly from #38 to #404.
Shania Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Alia went from #576 to #856 and Shania from #576 to #856.
Susan Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Alia went from #576 to #856 and Susan from #155 to #856.

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 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #355 in Northern Ireland in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Alia

Alia at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Alia across 3 official records

Alia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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