Aalayah
#3,028 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Aalayah has been given to 1,276 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #3,028 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 79 recorded.
Babies named Aalayah, 2025
1 in 61,400
Aalayah over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Aalayah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 61,400
- 54 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 29,800
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,028
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 42,555 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Aalayah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 42,555 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aalayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Aalayahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Aalayah was born before 2015 — so the typical Aalayah is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 46.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,276
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 46.9% of all recorded uses (599).
Is Aalayah rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +197
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −61
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −473
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.77×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 68.4%
- Peak was 2019 (79)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.2% average annual change
Spellings of Aalayah
Aalayah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 35.2% against Aalayah's 0.41%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Aalayah is used
Across 2016–2025, Aalayah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 33,199 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 25,000
- 2Florida1 in 25,000
- 3Georgia1 in 33,333
- 4Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
- 5Texas1 in 33,333
- 6Michigan1 in 50,000
- 7North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 8Ohio1 in 50,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Aalayah around the world
Where Aalayah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2003–2025#5,927in 2025
- Scotland2021–2021#792in 2021
- Canada2015–2015#3,185in 2015
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Aalayah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Aalayah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Aalayah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.