Entry № 371 · Arabic origin

Alaa Alaa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-LAH /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Exaltation / nobility"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "exaltation / nobility".

Alaa is from the Arabic ʿAlāʾ.

Exaltation / nobility — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

علاء
Transliteration
ʿAlāʾ
Pronunciation
/ əˈlɑː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Alaa stands.

Alaa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Alaas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Alaa Al Aswany / Al-Aliyy
Egyptian novelist + The Yacoubian Building 2002 + Al-Aliyy The Most High one of 99 Names of God Asmaul Husna
Arabic literature + Quran

Names connected to Alaa.

The number behind Alaa.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Alaa reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.