Alya

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Alya: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #476, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#476highest recorded position
8groupings 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	#3126
1997	#2738
1998	#3848
1999	#1805
2000	#1831
2001	#2783
2002	#1928
2003	#1996
2004	#3725
2005	#2084
2006	#2509
2007	#1965
2008	#2150
2009	#1837
2010	#1472
2011	#2025
2012	#1583
2013	#1774
2014	#1299
2015	#1405
2016	#1112
2017	#889
2018	#1013
2019	#1063
2020	#720
2021	#603
2022	#910
2023	#727
2024	#855

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: #476 among girls in Scotland, #855 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 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
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #855 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Alya appears in 2 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 615 births with the name.

Alya across 2 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.

Alya'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	#3126 (1996)	#603 (2021)	#855 (2024)	29 of 29	615 (1996–2024)	64 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#868 (2016)	#629 (2018)	#727 (2023)	4 of 8	15 (2016–2023)	5 (2018)

Alya 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 Alya in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	21	4 of 10	5
2000s	91	10 of 10	9
2010s	257	10 of 10	26
2020sbusiest	246	5 of 10	49

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 49 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2021 and 2022, when recorded births fell by 26, from 64 to 38.

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

Alya 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #476 in Scotland in 2024.

Alya'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	#855	43	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#727	50	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#910	38	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#603	64	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#720	51	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1063	32	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1013	35	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#889	43	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1112	31	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1405	23	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1299	25	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1774	16	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1583	19	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2025	13	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1472	20	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1837	14	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2150	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1965	12	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2509	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2084	10	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1996	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1928	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1831	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1805	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#629	5	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#476	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #476, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 64 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2016, 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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Aly · #873, 14y
Alyaan · #993, 18y
Alyan · #1236, 16y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Marla · #476, 27y
Naia · #476, 25y
Zoha · #476, 29y
Matty · #478, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Amarachi · #476, 28y
Marla · #476, 27y
Rya · #476, 19y
Zoha · #476, 29y

Alya was ranked #476 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. 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.

Alya 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 Alya without appearing here.

Alya moved ahead of

Lynette Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2509 and #2509 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1837 and #4564.
Jeanette Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3725 and #3725 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #2084 and #4798.
Lene Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3725 and #3725 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #2084 and #4798.
Jordan Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1837 and #1837 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1472 and #4012.

Moved ahead of Alya

Harper Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2084 and #2682 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #2509 and #2137.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1299 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1405 and #1240.
Frida Compare
In 2023 they stood at #727 and #851 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #855 and #811.
Fiadh Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1013 and #1436 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1063 and #1063.

Moved the opposite way to Alya

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alya went from #3126 to #855 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alya went from #3126 to #855 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alya went from #3126 to #855 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alya went from #3126 to #855 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Alya

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alya went from #3126 to #855 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alya went from #3126 to #855 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alya went from #3126 to #855 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alya went from #3126 to #855 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #476 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Alya

Alya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Alya across 2 official records

Alya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Alya across 2 official records

Alya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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