Aleya

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Aliya in IN India, US United States, PK Pakistan and 6 more, Alya in TR Türkiye, MY Malaysia, SY Syria and 4 more, Алия in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 3 more and Алія in UA Ukraine.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Aleya is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name5.3K records spelled Aleya5 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Ale'Ya

• French given name514 records spelled Aleya4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Malaysia

  Also written Aléya, Alèya, Äléyâ

• Amharic given name267 records spelled Aleya10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ethiopia, Türkiye, India, United States

  Also written Aliye, አሊይ, Aliya, አልዬ, አሊዬ

• Russian given name92 records spelled Aleya19 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, United States, Malaysia, India

  Languages: Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian

  Also written Алея, Алеа, Alea, Aleja, Aleia

40 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●

Aleya is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Spanish, ayah (a verse in the Quran)

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 49 years between 1974–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Aleya Hamrounib. 1945TNTunisian handball player
• Aleya Bettaïbb. 1958TNTunisian engineer

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 164 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aleya?

We estimate roughly 104 thousand people bear Aleya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Aleya have the most bearers?

Aleya is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled алия.

How common is Aleya compared with other names?

In Russia, Aleya is the 137th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Aleya a male or female name?

Aleya 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.