Alley
Alley is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 110.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 200666 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1915
- 1,112people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,070 girls have been named Alley in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 66 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2000s alone account for 43%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 42 boys have also been given it, 3.8% of the total.
By decade
In 2006, its biggest year
Alley was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2006 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2006.
Names that rose and fell with Alley
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Myasiapeak 2008
- Kayliepeak 2006
- Hayleepeak 2009
- Jazmynpeak 2005
- Shayleepeak 2007
- Makenzipeak 2008
- Cayliepeak 2009
- Kaylinpeak 2008
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.