Alija

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Alija is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. In Kazakhstan it is the 34th most common given name. Recorded meaning: aliyah.

rarermore common
  • KZKazakhstan≈1 in 306as Алия(inferred from the name graph)
  • RURussia≈1 in 1.9Kas Алия
  • KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 2Kas Алия

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 Alija 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.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈73,000 named Алия, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
328 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 78K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

АлияCyrillic(measured from records)
AlyaLatin(measured from records)
อุลญาThai(measured from records)

8 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Aliya in US United States, PK Pakistan, CH Switzerland and 1 more, Алия in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and Alya in TR Türkiye, MY Malaysia.

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)

aliyah

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Alija 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.

Where Alija is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#137≈73,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K#94Алия163
US United States—69,241as Aaliyah1 in 4.8K69KAliya328
KZ Kazakhstan#34≈62,000 est.≈1 in 30615KАлия70
PK Pakistan#406≈27,000 est.≈1 in 8.8KlistedAliya69
TR Türkiye#981≈14,000 est.≈1 in 5.8K8.7KAlya36
MY Malaysia#608≈9,200 est.≈1 in 3.6K3Alya37
AE United Arab Emirates#495≈6,400 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Aliya65
KG Kyrgyzstan#67≈3,000 est.≈1 in 2K1.4KАлия24
CH Switzerland—≈110 est.≈1 in 78K1.2KAliya10

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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TÜİK NIP — newborn names; State Registration Service — most popular newborn names; This page lists the top 100 names in Malaysia for boys and girls, published by Students of the World.; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Alija is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Alíja

  • Croatian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, United States, Serbia

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian

    Also written Алија, Alia, Aaliyah, Älija, Aлија

  • English given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Also written A’Lija

  • Hungarian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary

    Also written Álija

  • Swedish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, United States

    Languages: Swedish, Danish

    Also written Aliya

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Alija 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, pers. name (A. Izetbegovic)

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Ali Pasha, Ali Pa^a

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Turkish governor

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Polish, aliya (the calling up of someone to the bimah for the reading of the Torah)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Алија (Alija).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

1850190019502000Alija Alijagić, b. 1895Aliyə Terequlova, b. 1913Alija Izetbegović, b. 1925Aliya Moldagulova, b. 1925Alija Behmen, b. 1940Aliya Wolf, b. 1975Aliya Nazarbayeva, b. 1980Aliya Yussupova, b. 1984Aliya Garayeva, b. 1988Aliya Assymova, b. 1997

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 48 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Alija
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020396#18,901
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020170#18,901
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20255—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20175—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 Alija mean, and where does it come from?
aliyah Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Alija a male or female name?
Alija 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 Alija?
In the etymology graph, Ali, Əli and 'Ali are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Alija have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 73 thousand people named Алия in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Alija?
In the United States, the national register counted 69,241 people named Aaliyah in 2020, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
How common is Alija compared with other names?
In Russia, Alija is the 137th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.

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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, “Alija” — the 137th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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