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Alia

Most Poles have never met one, but the name is catching on: 15 newborn girls last year, more than in any year before it. From Latin, carrying the sense of "high" or "exalted".

Alia Pronunciation

Alia is pronounced AHL-yah (/ˈalja/).

Alive in 2025
187
Newborns 2025
15
National rank
#2311

What Alia means

Where Alia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Alia comes from Latin, where the adjective altus and its feminine form alta meant high and raised up. The same root stands behind English exalt and altitude. Its short meaning keeps to that source: high, exalted.

The name also belongs to Arabic, where Aliya grows from a root meaning to rise or be elevated. Two traditions land on one idea. In Polish records Alia carries no diminutive and no variant beside it, so the four letters do all the work themselves.

Picture a class register on the first day of a Polish school. The teacher reads Alia once. There is nothing to shorten, no zdrobnienie waiting in the margin. A child answers to the full name from the start. That directness fits a word built from alta, high and exalted.

How many people are named Alia

1 in 120555 women in Poland is named Alia. 187 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2311 among female names.

People with the name Alia 2019 → 2025
187 +103 since 2019
2020 92 +8
2021 104 +12
2022 124 +20
2023 148 +24
2024 165 +17
2025 187 +22

Alia's popularity over time

15 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #584 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2012.

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15 newborns with the name Alia in 2025
national rank #584 that year

Where parents choose Alia

Alia is most popular in Łódź, 251% above the national average (7 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lublin (+148%) and Podlaskie (+93%). It is least common in Lesser Poland and Silesian, 44% and 16% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Łódź
    +251%
    1 in 18,103 babies
  • Lublin
    +148%
    1 in 25,669 babies
  • Podlaskie
    +93%
    1 in 32,893 babies
Chosen least
  • Lesser Poland
    −44%
    1 in 113,458 babies
  • Silesian
    −16%
    1 in 75,861 babies

Alia as a middle name

Alia is a first name for 187 women in Poland and a middle name for another 48, an 80/20 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 988th, between Tara (49) and Anatolia (48).

As a first name
187
As a middle name
48
first name 80% middle name 20%
Middle-name ranking women

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