Alaa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Alaa är ett arabiskt namn som ges till både män och kvinnor, men med olika b etydelse
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Alaa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 32nd most common given name.
- JOJordan≈1 in 269(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 286
- EGEgypt≈1 in 450
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 303 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 269 (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alaa är ett arabiskt namn som ges till både män och kvinnor, men med olika b etydelse. Som kvinnonamn betyder det ’oräkneliga välsignelser’ och som mansnamn ’härlighet’.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alaa 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #32 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 450 | — | Alaa | 174 |
| SD Sudan | #161 | ≈83,000 est. | ≈1 in 552 | — | Alaa | 47 |
| SY Syria | #27 | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 286 | — | Alaa | 65 |
| JO Jordan | #93 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 269 | — | Alaa | 117 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #67 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 882 | — | Alaa | 161 |
| US United States | — | 4,362 | 1 in 76K | 2.4K | Alaa | 303 |
| KW Kuwait | #55 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 767 | — | Alaa | 84 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Alaa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Greek: war goddess
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In Finnish, partitive singular of ala
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ff, there is not, there is no
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Aymara, Athakh;lnterjeciondc vné qiie fe duele, o compadece. Achiíby,Es masproprio de mugeres, y viejos,
as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara
In Aymara, Arr!ba:Prepoficíon encima o fobrc:Ypofponefcalosnoiij bres. A
as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ala al-Din Husaynb. 1110AFnot in their usual namemalik of the Ghurid dynasty
- Ala ad-Din Tekishb. 1132IRnot in their usual name12th-century Khwarazm Shah
- Ala-ud-Din Masud Shahb. 1300INnot in their usual name7th Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate
- Alaa Al Aswanyb. 1957EGEgyptian writer
- Alaa Mubarakb. 1960EGEgyptian businessman
- Alaa Abd El-Fatahb. 1981EGEgyptian human rights activist
- Alaa Safib. 1984FRFrench actor, director and film producer
- Ala Al-Sasib. 1987YEnot in their usual namefootballer
- Alaa Abdul-Zahrab. 1987IQfootballer
- Alaa NajjarEGphysician and Wikimedian
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 60 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.4K | #4,333 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2K | #4,333 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 49 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Alaa mean?
- Recorded meaning: Alaa är ett arabiskt namn som ges till både män och kvinnor, men med olika b etydelse.
- Is Alaa a male or female name?
- Alaa 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 Alaa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 231 thousand people named Alaa in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alaa.
- How common is the name Alaa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,362 people named Alaa in 2020, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.
- How common is Alaa compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Alaa is the 32nd most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alaaThe 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, “Alaa” — the 32nd most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.