Alaa

given name · Arabic · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Alaa is a given name, most frequently recorded in Syria, where it is the 26th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Alaa är ett arabiskt namn som ges till både män och kvinnor, men med olika b etydelse.

rarermore common
  • SYSyria1 in 422◐
  • EGEgypt1 in 498
  • KWKuwait1 in 668

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈7.8K ●

across 8 countries

Sources
272 ●

231K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.4K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Alaà in DZ Algeria, TN Tunisia, Àlaá in SE Sweden, Ala'A in YE Yemen and Alaâ in MA Morocco.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Swedish

Alaa är ett arabiskt namn som ges till både män och kvinnor, men med olika b etydelse. Som kvinnonamn betyder det ’oräkneliga välsignelser’ och som mansnamn ’härlighet’.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Alaa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SY Syria#2678,93484K rec.——Alaa59
EG Egypt#4378,79752K rec.——Alaa162
TR Türkiye—13,74714K rec.——Alaa44
IQ Iraq#99311,48711K rec.——Alaa61
SA Saudi Arabia#8811,2074.2K rec.——Alaa148
JO Jordan#1424,8704.3K rec.——Alaa106
DE Germany—4,5324.6K rec.——Alaa113
IL Israel—4,0884.3K rec.——Alaa67
KW Kuwait#693,4232.2K rec.——Alaa76
SE Sweden—2,985△1.2K rec.1 in 3.4K3KÀlaá64
AE United Arab Emirates#1222,7372.3K rec.——Alaa128
AR Argentina—2,463104 rec.—6Alaa18

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Arabic213K68%
  • English15K5%
  • Turkish14K4%
  • French11K4%
  • Spanish6.6K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Arabic212,92068%
English14,7035%
Turkish13,6084%
French11,0864%
Spanish6,5662%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Alaa is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish given name16K records spelled Alaa35 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Iraq, United States

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek

    Also written Ala'A, Alàà, Alaâ, Alaá, Àĺaa

  • French given name13K records spelled Alaa86 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Syria, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Ala'A, Alaâ, Alâa, Alaà, Alàà

  • Urdu given name3.0K records spelled Alaa31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Türkiye, Syria, Iraq

    Languages: Urdu, Hindi

    Also written Ala'A, Ala’a, Alaã, Àlàà, Âlăā

  • Danish given name2.8K records spelled Alaa35 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Ala'A, Alaa', Âlâà, Alaá, Älãä

  • Russian given name2.2K records spelled Alaa16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Russia, Syria, Iraq

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Алаа, Ала’а, Ala'A, Alâa, Alàà

  • a separate given name2.1K records spelled Alaa5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Iraq, India, United Kingdom

    Also written Ala'A, Ala’a, Alaâ, Alaä

  • Finnish given name1.4K records spelled Alaa10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Türkiye, Syria

    Also written Ala'A, Ãläâ, Alaâ, Älää, Ẳlẵẵ

  • Swahili given name1.3K records spelled Alaa2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, United States, Iraq

    Also written Ala'A

  • Persian given name1.3K records spelled Alaa8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Iraq, United States

    Languages: Persian, Pashto

    Also written Ala'A, Älaä, Åläā, Alàa

50 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●

Alaa 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, Greek: war goddess

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In Finnish, partitive singular of ala

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

  • In ff, there is not, there is no

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

  • In Aymara, Athakh;lnterjeciondc vné qiie fe duele, o compadece. Achiíby,Es masproprio de mugeres, y viejos,

    as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara

  • In Aymara, Arr!ba:Prepoficíon encima o fobrc:Ypofponefcalosnoiij bres. A

    as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara

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.

Over time●

0204060801980199020002010202061 · 2017

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Alaa in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1979–2025
Yearrecords
19795
19807
198111
198211
198311
198412
198510
198611
198716
198810
198918
199022
199132
199228
199326
199424
199531
199632
199728
199830
199935
200048
200139
200227
200325
200436
200531
200632
200729
200841
200931
201035
201143
201246
201349
201450
201556
201652
201761
201852
201959
202046
202148
202251
202338
202459
202549

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 47 years between 1979–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

100012001400160018002000Ala al-Din Husayn, b. 1110Ala ad-Din Tekish, b. 1132Ala-ud-Din Masud Shah, b. 1300Alaa Al Aswany, b. 1957Alaa Mubarak, b. 1960Alaa Abd El-Fatah, b. 1981Alaa Safi, b. 1984Ala Al-Sasi, b. 1987Alaa Abdul-Zahra, b. 1987

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●

Attested in 60 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Alaa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—3K#835
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.4K#4,333
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202K#4,333
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.2K—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—909#3,046
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024845#722
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—730#1,981
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—693#1,759
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—644#2,139
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—268#851
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—256#749
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025239—

Reference works 5

  • 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)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 332 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Alaa?
We estimate roughly 7.8 thousand people bear Alaa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Alaa have the most bearers?
Alaa is most frequently recorded in Syria, where it is most often spelled alaa.
How common is Alaa compared with other names?
In Syria, Alaa is the 26th most common given name of 109,868 given names recorded there.
Is Alaa a male or female name?
Alaa 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.
What does the name Alaa mean?
Recorded meaning: Alaa är ett arabiskt namn som ges till både män och kvinnor, men med olika b etydelse.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Alaa” — the 26th most common given name in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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