Ala’
given name · Latin script
Ala’ is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Moldova than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish آلا (ala), from Proto-Turkic *āla (“variegated”). Doublet of ela.
- MDMoldova1 in 296(measured from records)
- JOJordan≈1 in 14K
- PLPoland1 in 23K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ala’ itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Moldova (measured from records)
- Sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- 1 in 296 (inferred from the name graph)
11,376 people
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Alae in ES Spain, US United States and Ala' in JO Jordan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Ottoman Turkishآلاala(measured from records)
- Proto-Turkic*āla“variegated”(measured from records)
From Ottoman Turkish آلا (ala), from Proto-Turkic *āla (“variegated”). Doublet of ela.
Sources 5
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ala’ counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
11,376 people counted by e-services.md — living population register. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: e-services.md — living population register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ala’ mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ottoman Turkish آلا (ala), from Proto-Turkic *āla (“variegated”). Doublet of ela. Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese and 3 other sources.
- Is Ala’ a male or female name?
- Ala’ is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Ala’ have the most bearers?
- In Moldova, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Ala’, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ala’ most common?
- Ala’ is densest in Moldova, where the national register counts about 1 in 296 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ala’?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 11,376 people named Ala’, about 1 in 296 residents.
What do you want to know about Ala’?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ala%E2%80%99The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ala’”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.