Ala Forename
4,763rd
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 219,647 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Moldova
Ala Forename Definition:
A Arabic name, meaning: Glorious.
Ala Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| India | 87% | 60,865 | 1:19,960 | 2,856 |
| Sudan | 81% | 31,730 | 1:1,192 | 228 |
| Bangladesh | 99% | 15,488 | 1:10,296 | 1,319 |
| Egypt | 78% | 14,141 | 1:6,499 | 700 |
| Poland | 98% | 13,995 | 1:2,717 | 234 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 11,074 | 1:2,782 | 463 |
| Moldova | 100% | 10,922 | 1:326 | 78 |
| Nigeria | 83% | 8,608 | 1:20,628 | 2,090 |
| Libya | - | 7,712 | 1:807 | 145 |
| Iran | 100% | 5,743 | 1:13,668 | 918 |
| Ukraine | 100% | 4,486 | 1:10,143 | 254 |
| Israel | 93% | 3,669 | 1:2,290 | 467 |
| Lebanon | 86% | 2,717 | 1:2,071 | 415 |
| Syria | - | 2,670 | 1:7,231 | 726 |
| Indonesia | 67% | 2,439 | 1:105,766 | 11,762 |
| Lithuania | 98% | 2,052 | 1:1,439 | 259 |
| Pakistan | 71% | 1,881 | 1:103,327 | 4,533 |
| United States | 54% | 1,831 | 1:197,999 | 7,078 |
| Georgia | 100% | 1,635 | 1:2,287 | 367 |
| Algeria | 100% | 1,454 | 1:26,256 | 1,340 |
| Iraq | 88% | 1,415 | 1:24,748 | 1,246 |
| Yemen | - | 1,320 | 1:19,922 | 920 |
| Niger | 72% | 973 | 1:19,716 | 1,442 |
| Morocco | 100% | 737 | 1:46,606 | 2,011 |
| Afghanistan | 63% | 718 | 1:45,437 | 2,325 |
| Tunisia | 100% | 701 | 1:966 | 198 |
| Brazil | 100% | 683 | 1:313,669 | 12,021 |
| England | 81% | 573 | 1:97,038 | 3,734 |
| Kuwait | - | 551 | 1:6,870 | 854 |
| Ghana | 100% | 393 | 1:68,667 | 3,308 |
| Canada | 100% | 381 | 1:86,964 | 4,664 |
| Russia | 93% | 364 | 1:396,246 | 4,728 |
| Philippines | 55% | 355 | 1:298,618 | 11,704 |
| Papua New Guinea | 53% | 318 | 1:25,636 | 2,533 |
| Oman | 100% | 297 | 1:13,834 | 1,389 |
| Jordan | 85% | 271 | 1:32,571 | 1,317 |
| Nepal | 72% | 271 | 1:105,119 | 5,727 |
| Sweden | 54% | 253 | 1:38,964 | 2,229 |
| Armenia | 100% | 215 | 1:13,576 | 992 |
| Bahrain | - | 207 | 1:6,515 | 1,046 |
| Malaysia | 64% | 201 | 1:151,492 | 9,474 |
| Senegal | 81% | 184 | 1:79,246 | 2,518 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 169 | 1:42,319 | 3,922 |
| Spain | 100% | 159 | 1:292,641 | 4,919 |
| Greece | 100% | 157 | 1:69,647 | 2,159 |
| Italy | 81% | 157 | 1:388,931 | 4,501 |
| Germany | 70% | 137 | 1:705,678 | 6,432 |
| Uzbekistan | 67% | 136 | 1:226,371 | 5,030 |
| Portugal | - | 129 | 1:80,704 | 2,343 |
| Thailand | 61% | 124 | 1:565,047 | 25,732 |
| Turkey | 85% | 116 | 1:670,704 | 8,138 |
| France | 66% | 113 | 1:588,233 | 5,893 |
| DR Congo | 79% | 96 | 1:769,038 | 24,327 |
| Romania | 100% | 86 | 1:233,163 | 7,731 |
| Ecuador | - | 85 | 1:208,552 | 3,523 |
| Cameroon | 51% | 84 | 1:257,268 | 10,142 |
| Palestine | 97% | 81 | 1:56,174 | 1,546 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 80 | 1:3,043 | 425 |
| Netherlands | 78% | 76 | 1:222,396 | 7,994 |
| Belarus | 98% | 71 | 1:133,555 | 1,294 |
| Latvia | 99% | 67 | 1:30,084 | 1,093 |
| Ireland | 100% | 66 | 1:70,356 | 2,009 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 62 | 1:383,382 | 24,833 |
| New Zealand | - | 54 | 1:84,001 | 3,804 |
| Norway | 100% | 48 | 1:106,924 | 3,383 |
| Denmark | - | 47 | 1:120,202 | 3,247 |
| Belgium | 97% | 38 | 1:302,370 | 6,091 |
| Australia | - | 37 | 1:369,125 | 6,777 |
| China | - | 36 | 1:37,945,994 | 61,562 |
| Ivory Coast | 55% | 35 | 1:659,312 | 22,418 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 32 | 1:65,336 | 3,906 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 31 | 1:225,496 | 5,341 |
| Qatar | 85% | 31 | 1:76,439 | 9,122 |
| Venezuela | 95% | 30 | 1:1,006,730 | 21,651 |
| American Samoa | - | 29 | 1:1,926 | 312 |
| Austria | 100% | 25 | 1:340,568 | 3,811 |
| Azerbaijan | 94% | 24 | 1:401,789 | 9,111 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 24 | 1:36,295 | 1,736 |
| Mauritania | 80% | 22 | 1:186,147 | 5,690 |
| Switzerland | 87% | 22 | 1:373,341 | 6,715 |
| Mexico | 70% | 21 | 1:5,911,639 | 22,154 |
| Kosovo | - | 20 | 1:93,072 | 5,301 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 20 | 1:23,782 | 522 |
| South Ossetia | 100% | 19 | 1:2,818 | 388 |
| Kazakhstan | 67% | 15 | 1:1,183,123 | 11,783 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 15 | 1:38,730 | 2,561 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 14 | 1:379,290 | 1,926 |
| Scotland | - | 13 | 1:411,567 | 5,527 |
| South Africa | 71% | 13 | 1:4,194,819 | 94,932 |
| Burkina Faso | 88% | 12 | 1:1,531,622 | 37,504 |
| Czechia | 88% | 12 | 1:888,014 | 3,257 |
| Wales | 100% | 10 | 1:309,431 | 4,737 |
| Eritrea | 100% | 9 | 1:528,109 | 348 |
| Estonia | - | 9 | 1:146,153 | 5,307 |
| Fiji | - | 9 | 1:99,153 | 1,900 |
| Peru | 75% | 9 | 1:3,532,384 | 29,289 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 9 | 1:2,311,010 | 7,931 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 7 | 1:351,251 | 4,834 |
| Finland | 58% | 6 | 1:913,864 | 8,662 |
| Uganda | 75% | 6 | 1:6,826,153 | 53,479 |
| Argentina | 100% | 5 | 1:8,554,649 | 17,386 |
| Cambodia | 80% | 5 | 1:3,254,666 | 31,163 |
| Singapore | - | 5 | 1:1,257,411 | 16,611 |
| Colombia | 100% | 4 | 1:11,944,732 | 44,648 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| Benin | 100% | 3 | 1:3,525,281 | 51,145 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 3 | 1:1,174,819 | 6,090 |
| Hong Kong | - | 3 | 1:2,584,242 | 11,307 |
| Kenya | - | 3 | 1:15,435,703 | 51,312 |
| Vietnam | - | 3 | 1:30,874,371 | 5,995 |
| Bahamas | - | 2 | 1:199,685 | 2,758 |
| Bolivia | - | 2 | 1:5,300,702 | 6,605 |
| Costa Rica | 50% | 2 | 1:2,383,974 | 18,662 |
| Croatia | 100% | 2 | 1:2,108,538 | 15,895 |
| Iceland | - | 2 | 1:183,008 | 5,215 |
| Japan | - | 2 | 1:63,993,028 | 72,606 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 50% | 2 | 1:2,986,638 | 34,954 |
| Serbia | 100% | 2 | 1:3,572,860 | 8,125 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | - | 2 | 1:680,710 | 23,658 |
| Zambia | - | 2 | 1:7,927,397 | 45,785 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 1 | 1:1,843,146 | 3,737 |
| Albania | 100% | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Cape Verde | - | 1 | 1:529,151 | 6,361 |
| Chile | 100% | 1 | 1:17,607,208 | 48,996 |
| Congo | 100% | 1 | 1:5,009,205 | 37,978 |
| Cuba | - | 1 | 1:11,506,552 | 13,531 |
| Djibouti | - | 1 | 1:915,664 | 2,132 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 1 | 1:10,431,270 | 30,761 |
| El Salvador | - | 1 | 1:6,341,786 | 16,428 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 1 | 1:49,127 | 2,467 |
| French Polynesia | - | 1 | 1:277,902 | 3,605 |
| Guam | - | 1 | 1:160,646 | 3,210 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 1 | 1:16,108,429 | 13,998 |
| Guinea | - | 1 | 1:11,858,647 | 7,978 |
| Honduras | - | 1 | 1:8,817,467 | 33,018 |
| Hungary | 67% | 1 | 1:9,791,771 | 6,528 |
| Liberia | 100% | 1 | 1:4,412,061 | 36,340 |
| Luxembourg | - | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Malta | - | 1 | 1:429,360 | 3,141 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 1 | 1:6,018,336 | 34,175 |
| Panama | - | 1 | 1:3,906,557 | 40,800 |
| Rwanda | - | 1 | 1:11,371,433 | 4,615 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 1 | 1:177,815 | 8,104 |
| Somalia | - | 1 | 1:13,525,867 | 7,760 |
| Togo | - | 1 | 1:7,239,239 | 8,047 |
| Tuvalu | - | 1 | 1:11,131 | 89 |
| Uruguay | - | 1 | 1:3,427,637 | 13,958 |
| Vanuatu | - | 1 | 1:261,792 | 1,604 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 1 | 1:15,423,817 | 113,731 |
The alternate forms: Alã (11), Alá (7), Alà (1), Alâ (1), Àla (1) & Ála (1) are calculated separately.
Ala (70,187) may also be a surname.
Ala Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A Arabic name, meaning: Glorious.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
A Latin name, meaning: Awing. (Teutonic) Holy.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
(m.) Horn.
Refers to the horns of the butterfly.
— Hopi Proper Names (1905) by Henry R. Voth
Ala Forename Popularity
Ala Demographics
Average Ala Salary in
United States
$41,087 USD
Per year
Rank:
236,639 of 531,972
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.000458038
Rank: 7,464 of 532,209
Percentage of national average salary:
94.39%
Sample size: 919 (2014)
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD
Phonetically Similar Names
Ala Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Ala in the Russian language | ||
| Ала | ala | - |
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- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Ala