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Alahia

#1,778 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Alaia

Alahia has been given to 538 babies in the U.S. since 2015. In 2025 it ranked #1,778 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 121 recorded.

Babies named Alahia, 2025

1 in 29,300

Alahia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alahia: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Alaia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alahia means

Alahia is a variant of Alaia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Alahia → Alaia. The family’s meaning is “joyful”, recorded in English with the source elements alai.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alaia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 538 girls were recorded with the name Alahia between 2015 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 121 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,681 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,779 in 2020 to #1,778 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,841 in 2015 to #1,778 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alahia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 29,300
113 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,778
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,337 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alahia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 20,337 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alahia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alahias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alahia was born before 2023 — so the typical Alahia is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
76.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
538
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 76.6% of all recorded uses (412).

Is Alahia 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
−97
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,001
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,063
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
5.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.4%
Peak was 2024 (121)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,681
2024

Spellings of Alahia

Alahia is not the most common spelling — Alicia is, with 30.0% against Alahia's 0.07%.

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 Alahia is used

Across 2016–2025, Alahia was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 24,338 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

114 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 7,143
  2. 2New York1 in 11,111
  3. 3Florida1 in 12,500
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 14,286
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 16,667
  6. 6Colorado1 in 20,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 33,333
  8. 8Texas1 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.

Alahia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,778
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,001
Best rank ever
#1,681
2024
Peak year
2024
121 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
538
Count in 2025
113

Names similar to Alahia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Alahia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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