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Alaiya

#792 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Alayah

Alaiya has been given to 3,153 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #792 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 396 recorded.

Babies named Alaiya, 2025

1 in 9,670

Alaiya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alaiya: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Alayah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alaiya means

Alaiya is a variant of Alayah.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alayah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,153 girls were recorded with the name Alaiya between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 396 in 2021; its best national rank was #721 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #778 in 2020 to #792 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,092 in 2015 to #792 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.

How common is Alaiya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,670
343 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,690
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#792
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,701 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alaiya 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,701 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alaiya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alaiyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alaiya was born before 2020 — so the typical Alaiya is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
60.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,153
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 60.4% of all recorded uses (1,905).

Is Alaiya 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
+143
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−14
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,300
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
6.35×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
86.6%
Peak was 2021 (396)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#721
2021

Spellings of Alaiya

Alaiya is not the most common spelling — Alana is, with 9.2% against Alaiya's 0.42%.

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 Alaiya is used

Across 2016–2025, Alaiya was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 2,439 girls, against 1 in 5,730 across all states with data. It was least common in Colorado (1 in 33,333).

341 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 2,439
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 3,030
  3. 3Georgia1 in 3,125
  4. 4Virginia1 in 3,571
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 3,704
  6. 6Florida1 in 3,846
  7. 7Alabama1 in 4,545
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 4,545

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.

Geographically, Alaiya is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 54% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Alaiya around the world

Where Alaiya 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 & Wales
    2013–2025
    #845
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2021–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2022–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    2019–2025
    #6,418
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Alaiya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#792
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 14
Best rank ever
#721
2021
Peak year
2021
396 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,153
Count in 2025
343

Names similar to Alaiya

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

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Names with a curve like Alaiya

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alaiya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LakelynEmberlynnLaylaniNovahArtemisTillyFreyjaBaylorMarigoldKhalaniReyaZyla

Sibling names for Alaiya

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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