Alaba is from the Other Aláabá. A modern American baby name in the broader Other heritage aesthetic. Alaba is a foundational name with deep heritage. Yoruba Aláabá female born after twins + foundational central in Yoruba twin-naming heritage + foundational central in pan-Yoruba spiritual heritage + foundational Ìbejì foundational central Yoruba twin-cult one of most twin-frequent populations on Earth + foundational central in Taiwo and Kehinde foundational names of twins + foundational Idowu born after twins + foundational Alaba second born after twins + foundational pan-Yoruba spiritual + diaspora heritage Candomblé + Lucumi. Foundational Other feminine name reflecting cultural + historical heritage spanning centuries.
Featured throughout Other heritage.
Alaba 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Alaba reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.