Alaiyah
#1,593 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Alaiyah has been given to 2,115 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #1,593 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 206 recorded.
Babies named Alaiyah, 2025
1 in 25,300
Alaiyah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Alaiyah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 25,300
- 131 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 12,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,593
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 17,542 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Alaiyah 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 17,542 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alaiyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Alaiyahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Alaiyah was born before 2019 — so the typical Alaiyah is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 47.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,115
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 47.4% of all recorded uses (1,002).
Is Alaiyah 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
- −120
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −306
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +616
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.54×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 63.6%
- Peak was 2021 (206)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.2% average annual change
Spellings of Alaiyah
Alaiyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 22.4% against Alaiyah's 0.43%.
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 Alaiyah is used
Across 2016–2025, Alaiyah was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 12,001 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 5,263
- 2Florida1 in 7,143
- 3Illinois1 in 9,091
- 4Alabama1 in 10,000
- 5Maryland1 in 10,000
- 6Mississippi1 in 10,000
- 7North Carolina1 in 10,000
- 8South Carolina1 in 10,000
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.
Alaiyah around the world
Where Alaiyah 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 & Wales2014–2025#1,719in 2025
- Canada2015–2024#3,027in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Alaiyah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Alaiyah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Alaiyah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alaiyah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Alaiyah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.