Alla
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name А́лла (Álla) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026): listed as female
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Estonia (Statistics Estonia): listed as female
- Brazil (IBGE): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 37 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈaɫːə/(recorded in a dictionary) Russian · from Wiktionary · read from алла
Alla is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 70th most common given name. Alla is also written Алла in Cyrillic, Ալլա in Armenian and ალლა in Georgian.
- LVLatvia1 in 373(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 770few records
- PLPoland1 in 2.4K
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 Alla itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #264 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- 1 in 373 (inferred from the name graph)
≈350,000 named Алла, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Alla in other scripts: Cyrillic, Armenian and Georgian
(measured from records)Locally spelled Алла in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus.
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.
How to pronounce Alla
- Russian:/ˈaɫːə/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Alla, martyr. 4th Century.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.
How Alla is read
(measured from records)Alla is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Ukrainian54%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Alla in Ukrainian.
- English14%
A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name А́лла (Álla)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Russian12%
Alla, martyr. 4th Century.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Alla 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #70 | ≈350,000 est. | ≈1 in 412 | register #49 | Алла | 187 |
| UA Ukraine | #45 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 166 | — | Алла | 103 |
| IN India | — | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 4.7K | Alla | 19 |
| BY Belarus | #50 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 326 | 4 | Алла | 35 |
| PL Poland | — | 16,212 | 1 in 2.4K | 16K | Alla | 66 |
| MD Moldova | #334 | 11,376as Ala | 1 in 296 | 11K | Alla | 28 |
| LV Latvia | #454 | 5,048 | 1 in 373 | 5K | Alla | 38 |
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: Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)Alla is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Asturian, initialism of Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, the governing body of the Asturian language.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, third-person singular past historic of aller
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, a female given name of Latvian speakers
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, feminine accusative singular of allur
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)- Alla Nazimovab. 1879USRussian-American actress (1879–1945)
- Alla Pugachevab. 1949RUSoviet-Russian singer, composer, and actress
- Nikki Benzb. 1981UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian-Canadian/American pornographic actress
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)78 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 37 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Alla come from?
- Alla, martyr. 4th Century. Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- How do you pronounce Alla?
- In Russian /ˈaɫːə/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Alla a male or female name?
- Alla is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026): listed as female; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Estonia (Statistics Estonia): listed as female; Brazil (IBGE): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What are other forms of the name Alla?
- In the etymology graph, Allochka is a recorded short or pet form.
- What does the name Alla mean?
- In English, A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name А́лла (Álla)
- Which countries have the most people named Alla?
- Mondonomo estimates about 349 thousand people named Алла in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, India, Belarus and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Alla most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alla is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 373 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Alla?
- In Poland, the national register counted 16,212 people named Alla in 2026, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Alla compared with other names?
- In Russia, Alla is the 70th 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, “Alla” — the 70th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.