Āla

Name: Āla: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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given name · Latin script

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

Āla is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 42nd most common given name. Āla is also written แอล in Thai, আল in Bengali and Αλ in Greek.

MDMoldova1 in 296(measured from records)
BRBrazil1 in 270K
BEBelgium≈1 in 1.2Kas L.

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 Āla 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.

: Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
: 4 (measured from records)
Record sources: 540 (measured from records)
: 1 in 296 (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Āla in other scripts: Latin, Thai, Bengali and 1 more

AlĀla in Latin

แอลĀla in Thai

আলĀla in Bengali

ΑλĀla in Greek

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled L. in DE Germany, NL Netherlands, CA Canada and 3 more and Al in US United States.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Cited for this meaning 1

Digital Pāḷi Dictionary

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Āla 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 Āla is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
ID Indonesia	#662	≈160,000 est.	≈1 in 1.8K	listed	L.	196
DE Germany	#438	≈24,000 est.	≈1 in 3.5K	listed	L.	178
US United States	#647	19,745as Al	1 in 17K	19K	Al	540
IN India	—	≈13,000 est.	≈1 in 112K	5.3K	L.	98
CA Canada	#444	≈12,000 est.	≈1 in 3.4K	2	L.	228
MD Moldova	—	11,376	1 in 296	11K	—	14
BE Belgium	#384	≈10,000 est.	≈1 in 1.2K	409	L.	80
CZ Czechia	—	7,568as Bára	1 in 1.4K	7.6K	—	2
NL Netherlands	#42	36as Aale	1 in 480K	222	L.	86

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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; e-services.md — living population register; MVČR — living population register 2017; Statbel — Noms de famille (family names). 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

Āla is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name13 spellings in the group
Also written Alā, Âlâ, Alà, Alā', Alâ
Latvian given name5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Latvia
Also written Aļa, Ala, Ālã
English given name94 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Morocco, Jordan, United Kingdom
Languages: English, Arabic, German
Also written Alae, Ala, Ala', Ala’, Al-A

2 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

Āla 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 trk-pro, variegated
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In trk-pro, пестрый
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Latvian, Seno romiešu dzīvojamās mājas ātrija paplašinājums abos sānos
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta Jordānijā, Ammānas muhāfazā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sērskābes varš
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Āla 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

Is Āla a male or female name?: Āla is a male 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.
Which countries have the most people named Āla?: Mondonomo estimates about 155 thousand people named Al in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Germany, United States, India and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Āla most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Āla is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 296 people — even though Indonesia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Āla?: In Moldova, the national register counted 11,376 people named Āla, about 1 in 296 residents.
How common is Āla compared with other names?: In Indonesia, Āla is the 662nd most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%81la

The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Āla” — the 662nd most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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