Aly
The girl's name Aly has been in the national records since 1951, with 2,197 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 3,712th. About 2,200 Alys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Aly boys named Aly
Girls and boys called Aly
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Aly crossed from boys to girls in 2003, and has stayed there for 23 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 85% girls, and in 2025 it was 74%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 31 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,197
- Estimated living today
- 2,200
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2016
- Best rank
- 2,412th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,712th
- First recorded
- 1951
- Girls / boys
- 1,483 / 714
How old the living Alys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,197 babies given the name since 1951, about 2,200 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,300 of them are children and 7 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Alys
- Aly Michalka (born 1989)American singer and actress
- Aly Cissokho (born 1987)French association football player
- Aly Raisman (born 1994)American artistic gymnast
- Aly Wagner (born 1980)American soccer player
- Prince Aly Khan (1911–1960)Pakistani diplomat
- Aly Keita (born 1986)Guinean association football player
- Aly Maher Pasha (1881–1960)Egyptian politician and prime minister
- Aly Zaker (1944–2020)Bangladeshi actor, writer, freedom fighter, entrepreneur, photographer, Trustee of Liberation War Museum
People named Aly with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Aly is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Aly is most concentrated in Texas (4.6×), California (3.3×), New York (2.2×), Florida (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2016
The most popular girls’ names the year Aly peaked:
Aly elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Aly | 1,245 | 593rd |
| England and Wales boys | Aly | 62 | 3,254th |
| France girls | Aly | 35 | 4,161st |
| Belgium boys | Aly | 12 | 1,121st |
| Ireland girls | Aly | 3 | 873rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Aly among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Aly | 7 | 33 |
| Finland girls | Aly | — | 9 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Aly lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 621 men called Aly were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lleida | Aly | 39 | 0.166 | 524 |
| AlmerÃa | Aly | 57 | 0.145 | 561 |
| Soria | Aly | 5 | 0.109 | 605 |
| Girona | Aly | 38 | 0.091 | 808 |
| Huesca | Aly | 10 | 0.085 | 795 |
| Zaragoza | Aly | 28 | 0.057 | 1,018 |
Listed in 30 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 22 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Aly against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.