Alla

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Алла in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 8 more and Ალლა in GE Georgia.

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●

Attested across 31 languages 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◐

Alla is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name83K records spelled Alla55 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Norway

  Languages: English, German, Norwegian Bokmål

  Also written Aella, Allae, Älla, Älläễ, Ällâ

• Hindi given name62K records spelled Alla7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Russia

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Àllà, Āḷla, Allã, Ãllã

• a separate given name32K records spelled Alla5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Russia, Ukraine

  Also written Âlla, Āḷla, Allā, Āḷḷa

• French given name23K records spelled Alla20 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Côte d’Ivoire, Russia

  Also written Àllà, Allà, Allã, Ãllá, Āllā

• Arabic given name19K records spelled Alla15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Egypt, Syria, India

  Also written Allà, All'A, Ãllã, Ällä, A'Lla

• Spanish given name14K records spelled Alla15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, United States, Argentina, Russia

  Also written Allá, Àllà, Âllâ, Ållā, Ẳllâ

• Latvian given name6.9K records spelled Alla4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Latvia, United States, Lithuania, Russia

  Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

  Also written Áļĺa, Ãllâ

49 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●

Alla 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 Asturian, initialism of Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, the governing body of the Asturian language.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name А́лла (Álla)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In French, third-person singular past historic of aller

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latvian, a female given name of Latvian speakers

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Icelandic, feminine accusative singular of allur

  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) — 109 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Alla Nazimovab. 1879USRussian-American actress (1879–1945)
• Alla Bayanovab. 1914RURussian singer (1914–2011)
• Alla Rakhab. 1919INIndian tabla player (1919–2000)
• Alla Horskab. 1929UASoviet painter, Ukrainian dissident (1929-1970)
• Alla Demidovab. 1936RUSoviet and Russian actress
• Alla Davidovna Balterb. 1939RUSoviet actress (1939-2000)
• Alla Pugachevab. 1949RUSoviet-Russian singer, composer, and actress
• Alla Zahaikevychb. 1966UAUkrainian composer
• Nikki Benzb. 1981UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian-Canadian/American pornographic actress
• Alla Kudryavtsevab. 1987RURussian tennis player

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 · 499 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Alla?

We estimate roughly 47 thousand people bear Alla (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Alla have the most bearers?

Alla is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled алла.

How common is Alla compared with other names?

In Russia, Alla is the 70th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Alla a male or female name?

Alla 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.

What does the name Alla mean?

Recorded meaning: Alla, martyr. 4th Century.