Alley is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Alley in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Alley in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Alley by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Alley ranks at #5,029. That means there are 5,028 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Alley.
In fact, the name Alley did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Alley seemed to be more popular than ever in 2004. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,505, 59 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Alley, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Alley was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Alley a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #7,858 - with a total of 11 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Alley in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 118 women and girls named Alley, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 118 women and girls named Alley live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Georgia, Missouri, North Carolina and South Carolina. In all other 42 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Alley. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Alley lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Alley and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Alley relative to its female population is Tennessee. And even there, only one in 122,771 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Alley.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With five letters, the name Alley is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Alley and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Alley, you can simply say:
Apple
Lion
Lion
Elephant
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Alley
Alley
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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L
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Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
L
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Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Alley sounds like this:
