Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Aleja comes from Latin, and ultimately from Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Spanish usage, Aleja is a diminutive of Alejandra.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aleja through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 175
- 0 boys · 175 girls
- Most popular year
- 2002
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 2002. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 454 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Aleja’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Aleja is a diminutive of Alejandra. In Spanish usage, Aleja has a conventional equivalent in the English form Alexis. In Spanish usage, Aleja has a conventional naming counterpart in the English form Alexa.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Aleja has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
7 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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