Ála

given name · Latin script

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

Ála 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.

rarermore common
  • 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 Ála 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)

11,376 people

Sources
224 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 296 (inferred from the name graph)

Moldova

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AlaeLatin(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

Derivation of Ála: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Ála
  1. Ottoman Turkishآلاala(measured from records)
  2. 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)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ála 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 Ála is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MD Moldova11,3761 in 29611K—30
US United States2,0461 in 163K1.2KAlae224
PL Poland1,6441 in 23K1.6K—5
ES Spain1,296as Alae1 in 39K1.3KAlae20
BR Brazil7831 in 270K783—1
JO Jordan≈780 est.≈1 in 14K—Ala'28
SE Sweden4311 in 24K431—29

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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ála is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Tunisia

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Ala, Alã, Alá, Ala', Al-A

3 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)

Ála is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In tut-pro, hail, ice

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In ifu, conveys the action-denoting idea of getting, taking

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Irish, inflection of áil (“request; desire, wish”):

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

  • In Malagasy, removed, taken away, released, fetched, withdrawn, freed from

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Icelandic, indefinite accusative/genitive plural of áll

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

  • In Iloko, take, get, go to and get

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ála under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ála 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 Ála a male or female name?
Ála 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 Ála have the most bearers?
In Moldova, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Ála, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Ála most common?
Ála is densest in Moldova, where the national register counts about 1 in 296 people carrying it.
How common is the name Ála?
In Moldova, the national register counted 11,376 people named Ála, about 1 in 296 residents.

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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, “Ála”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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