Ala
Fewer than 1,600 people in Poland carry it, almost all of them women, so most Poles have never met one. At root it means "noble".
Ala Pronunciation
Ala is pronounced AH-lah (/ˈala/).
What Ala means
Where Ala comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ala is short, and it opens onto something larger. Behind it stand the fuller forms Alicja and its cousins Alicia and Alisiia, each holding the sense the grounding gives us: noble, or in Polish szlachetnie urodzona. The root is Slavic, and the meaning points to high birth rather than to any single ancestor.
On a Polish school register, Ala might sit between an Alicja and an Aleksandra, a short form doing the work of a full one. The name travels light. It suits a small child and stays easy on an adult, which is part of why the diminutive so often stands alone.
What holds steady is the meaning underneath. Slavic in root, Ala reaches toward the old idea of noble birth: szlachetnie urodzona.
How many people are named Ala
1 in 14187 women in Poland is named Ala. 1,606 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #774 among female names.
Ala's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Ala as a middle name
Ala is a first name for 1,606 women in Poland and a middle name for another 316, an 84/16 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 380th, between Eufemia (317) and Dalia (316).
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