Alaja
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Alaja has been given to 197 babies in the U.S. since 1997. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2005, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Alaja, 2023
1 in 663,000
Alaja 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Alaja?
Alaja had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,528 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Alaja sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alaja. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Alajas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Alaja was born before 2006 — so the typical Alaja is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 54.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 197
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 54.3% of all recorded uses (107).
Is Alaja 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2005 (15)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.3% average annual change
Spellings of Alaja
Alaja is not the most common spelling — Clara is, with 21.2% against Alaja's 0.01%.
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.
Alaja by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Alaja
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Alaja
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.