Given name & surname
Alla
Alla is a feminine given name. It is used in English, Albanian, and Latvian.
Original RussianАлла
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Alla through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,202
- 10 boys · 1,192 girls
- Most popular year
- 1927
- 25 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #15,055 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −40%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 15,055 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 25 in 1927. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 8,617 as a first name in 2020; 786 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Alla’s family of names
In German usage, Alla has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Алла. In Latvian usage, Alla was borrowed from the Russian form Алла. In Armenian usage, Alla is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Ալլա.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Alla has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Russian roots to each of them.
Russianwhere Alla comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Alla
- Alla PugachevaSoviet-Russian singer, composer, and actressborn 1949
- Alla NazimovaRussian-American actress (1879–1945)
- Alla HorskaSoviet painter, Ukrainian dissident (1929-1970)
- Alla CherkasovaUkrainian wrestlerborn 1989
- Alla DemidovaSoviet and Russian actressborn 1936
- Alla Shishkinasynchronized swimmerborn 1989
- Alla KudryavtsevaRussian tennis playerborn 1987
- Alla KushnirRussian-Israeli chess player (1941–2013)
- Alla RakhaIndian tabla player (1919–2000)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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