Alia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Tunisie
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eʎia/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the United Arab Emirates it is the 77th most common given name.
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 3.2K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 4.1K
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 Alia 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 349 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
53,360 named Aria, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Tunisie
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 53,360as Aria | 1 in 6.2K | 52K | Alia | 349 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Alia | 62 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Alia | 99 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #77 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Alia | 117 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Alia | 56 |
| JO Jordan | #577 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Alia | 50 |
| AL Albania | — | 1,281as Aria | 1 in 2.4K | 1.3K | — | — |
| KW Kuwait | #284 | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Alia | 52 |
| SE Sweden | — | 663 | 1 in 15K | 663 | Alia | 17 |
53,360 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling aria. 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; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Alia 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 Swedish, Alia (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’den höga, den uppsatta’. En känd namnbärare är den amerikanska sångerskan Aaliyah (1979–2001). N amnet har blivit populärt i Sverige de allra senaste åren. Ett likalydande namn med ovisst ursprung användes också under 1800-talet. I formen Aliya kan det på nyhebreiska också betyda (symbolisera) den judiska invandringen till Israel.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In kr, tiloro, for God's sake. alia logohgin, I pray to God
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of ālium
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, other, another
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mva, centipede
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Aliya Moldagulovab. 1925KZnot in their usual nameSoviet Kazakh sniper and Heroine of the Soviet Union (1925–1944)
- Queen Alia of Jordanb. 1948JOQueen Consort of Jordan (1972-1977)
- Alia Janineb. 1978UScomedian and pornographic performer (b. 1978)
- Aliya Nazarbayevab. 1980KZnot in their usual nameKazakh businesswoman
- Isis Loveb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress
- Alia Atkinsonb. 1988JMJamaican swimmer
- Alia Shawkatb. 1989USAmerican actress
- Alia Saburb. 1989USAmerican mathematician
- Alia Bhattb. 1993GBBritish actress
- Aliya Mustafinab. 1994RUnot in their usual nameRussian gymnast
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 105 sources across 54 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 13K | #2,125 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 663 | #2,254 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 499 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 475 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 76 | #2,125 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 20 | #6,447 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 5 | #6,447 |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Alia?
- A machine transcription gives /eʎia/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Alia mean, and where does it come from?
- Tunisie Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- Is Alia a male or female name?
- Alia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Alia?
- In the etymology graph, Alya is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Alia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 53 thousand people named Aria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Alia?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 663 people named Alia, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Alia compared with other names?
- In the United Arab Emirates, Alia is the 77th most common given name of 31,430 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aliaThe 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, “Alia” — the 77th most common given name in United Arab Emirates. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.