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Alaya

#368 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Alayah

Alaya has been given to 11,095 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #368 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 915 recorded.

Babies named Alaya, 2025

1 in 3,980

Alaya over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alaya: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Alayah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alaya means

Alaya is a variant of Alayah.

Origin, language, and formation

Alaya is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alayah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,095 girls were recorded with the name Alaya between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 915 in 2020; its best national rank was #338 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #338 in 2020 to #368 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #728 in 2015 to #368 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 Alaya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 3,980
834 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 1,930
0.05% of girls
Rank, 2025
#368
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,756 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alaya 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 1002%
School of 50012%

Put another way: gather 2,756 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alaya was born before 2019 — so the typical Alaya is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
45.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,095
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 45.5% of all recorded uses (5,044).

Is Alaya 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
−6
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−30
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+360
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
91.1%
Peak was 2020 (915)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#338
2020

Spellings of Alaya

Alaya is not the most common spelling — Clara is, with 14.8% against Alaya's 0.55%.

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 Alaya is used

Across 2016–2025, Alaya was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 943 girls, against 1 in 1,927 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in 14,286).

7106 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 943
  2. 2Delaware1 in 952
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 1,250
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 1,266
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 1,333
  6. 6Alabama1 in 1,370
  7. 7Georgia1 in 1,408
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 1,471

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, Alaya is used remarkably evenly across the country — more concentrated than 18% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Alaya around the world

Where Alaya 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
    1996–2025
    #248
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2025
    #387
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2014–2022
    #305
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2019–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    2001–2025
    #844
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #430
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS, NISRA 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.

Notable people named Alaya

People whose public names include Alaya, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Alaya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#368
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 30
Best rank ever
#338
2020
Peak year
2020
915 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,095
Count in 2025
834

Names similar to Alaya

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

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Names with a curve like Alaya

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

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Sibling names for Alaya

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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