Alay

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Alay has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 2007. 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 2007, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Alay, 2019

1 in 694,000

Alay over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alay: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alay means

Alay is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Alay is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 boys were recorded with the name Alay between 2007 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2007; its best national rank was #10,825 in 2017.

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.

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How common is Alay?

Alay had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019: 1 in 694,000; 5 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only: 1 in 359,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 481,354 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Alay sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alay was born before 2017 — so the typical Alay is around 8 today.

Median birth year: 2017; About 8 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 64.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 17; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 64.7% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Alay 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: —; 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 2007 (6)
Years since peak: 18; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #10,825; 2017

Spellings of Alay

Alay is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 25.9% against Alay's <0.01%.

Adam25.9%580,378
Alan16.2%363,313
Alex12.8%286,169
Ray9.1%204,701
Jay8.7%195,548
Allan4.3%96,458
Andy4.2%94,185
Alec2.5%55,152

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.

Alay around the world

Where Alay 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.

South Australia
2003–2003
#588
in 2003

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Alay by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #10,825; 2017
Peak year: 2007; 6 that year
First recorded: 2007
Last recorded: 2019
All-time count: 17
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Alay

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

Alaia Alaz Alax Alac Alaska Alai Alanis Alaye Alayn Alaan Alana Alani Elay Alann Alamir Alaki Alastar Alano Alam Alahn Alakay Alaa Alandre Alanna

Sibling names for Alay

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

For a sister

Jailyn Kalli Neveah Marlen Jaylyn Lupita Rhianna Marin

For a brother

Jaeden Nikhil Jamarcus Slade Brandt Nevin Ean Davian

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