Ałła
Poland knows it through Russian and Ukrainian, though the root goes back to the Greek allos, "other". Only about 300 women here carry it and none have been named in years, so meeting one stays memorable.
Ałła Pronunciation
Ałła is pronounced AHW-wah (/ˈawwa/).
What Ałła means
Where Ałła comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ałła is how Polish writes Alla, a name carried by Russian and Ukrainian speakers for generations. Etymologists usually trace it back to Hebrew. The short meaning that later gathered around it comes from somewhere else, from the Greek allos, "other." A Polish speaker would render that as inny, inna.
Because the name has no diminutives or variants of its own, it stands as a single clear form. That plainness suited public life in the Soviet decades. Alla Pugacheva, born in 1949, became the most famous singer of that era, and one name was enough for millions to know exactly who was meant.
Picture the name on a class register in a Polish school, four letters with that double ł that stops a reader for a second. It looks foreign on the page, and it is. The sense of "other" was fastened to Ałła through Greek long after its Hebrew beginnings, which leaves two facts to hold at once: the Hebrew root and the Greek allos, rendered in Polish as inny, inna.
How many people are named Ałła
1 in 72957 women in Poland is named Ałła. 309 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1719 among female names.
Ałła as a middle name
Ałła is a first name for 309 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3184th, between Azul (6) and Bai (6).
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#3182 Ayça6
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#3183 Azul6
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#3184 Ałła6
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#3185 Bai6
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#3186 Başak6