Alia
2025 SSA
About Alia
Alia is the most classic and feminine form of Ali, one of the 99 attributes of Allah within Islam. Meaning "supreme, exalted, high, sublime", it is pretty, powerful and spirited.
The name is also used by Christians and Jews as it can be derived from the Hebrew word "alah", meaning "ascending" or "to rise" and is associated with making a pilgrimage or migrating to Israel.
Alia also given to the heroine of Frank Herbert's science fiction classic,Children of Dune and with the release of the new film adaptations of Dune, it may just gain more attention.
While Alia is the sleekest version of the name, both the most ancient and the most modern-feeling, its most famous relative in the U.S. today is Aaliyah, a Top 100 name, associated with the singer.
Pronounced AHL-yuh.
As of October 2026, Alia ranked #587 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #550 in 2019, Nameberry popularity #650.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #729 | 384 | 215 |
| 2015 | #612 | 472 | 264.4 |
| 2016 | #651 | 450 | 253.9 |
| 2017 | #639 | 461 | 267 |
| 2018 | #655 | 450 | 264.5 |
| 2019 | #550 | 555 | 330.7 |
| 2020 | #575 | 510 | 315.5 |
| 2021 | #594 | 504 | 307.2 |
| 2022 | #585 | 511 | 311.6 |
| 2023 | #556 | 545 | 339.7 |
| 2024 | #559 | 540 | 333.3 |
| 2025 | #587 | 499 | 310.5 |
World rankings
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Alia on lists
Famous Alias
- Alia al
Hussein, Queen consort of Jordan
- Alia bint Al Hussein
Princess of Jordan
- Alia Martine Shawkat
American actress
- Alia Shanee Atkinson
Jamaican Olympic swimmer
- Alia Muhammad Baker
librarian who saved 30, 000 books from destruction in Iraq
- Alia Bano
British playwright
- Alia Bhatt
Indian actress, daughter of Indian Director Mahesh Bhatt and British,Indian Actress Soni Razdan and half sister of Indian Actress Pooja Bhatt
- Alia Ghanem
birth name of Osama Bin Laden's mother
- Alia Moses Ludlum
U.S. federal judge
- Alia Mamdouh
Iraqi novelist, author and journalist
- Alia Ouabdelsselam
French ice dancer
- Alia Shelesh aka SSSniperWolf
British,American YouTuber
- Alia Sabur
American materials scientist; world's youngest professor
- Alia Rose Lebeau (b. 1992)
daughter of singer Teena Marie
- Alía Horford Vega (b. 2016)
daughter of Miss Universe Amelia Vega and basketball player Al Horford
Alia in pop culture
- Alia
character in the Shadow Children series by Margaret P. Haddix
- Alia
character in Mega Man X series
- Alia Atreides
character in the Dune series by Frank Herbert
- Alia carinata
species of very small sea snail
- Alia
former Jordanian national airline
- Alia Zhang
character in video game "The Sims 3" Moonlight Bay