Name meaning & stats
Alya
Alya means “scarlet”. 2,242 US babies since 1940, peak 2021.
What it means
“scarlet”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2021
2,242 US babies were named Alya between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Alya (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 137 Aaliyahs spell it Alya
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2021)