Meaning not yet researched.
Alaia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,318 in 2025. Its best rank was #112 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #112 in 2024; #117 in 2025. About 99.7% of babies named Alaia in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#117 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #112.
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Alaia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,318 girls in 2025. Peak: #112 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 2,429 (2024).
In 2025, 2,318 US girls were named Alaia, making it the 117th most common girls’ name of the year, down 5 places from #112 in 2024. That is 111 fewer than the 2,429 girls named Alaia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #112, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,429. For comparison, it was #664 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alaia in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1986 with 6 babies. In all, 17,699 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 13,651 babies named Alaia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 16,713 US girls were named Alaia; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 2,429. In 2025 that was about 1 in 693 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alaia ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #56 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 10 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Alayah (12,228 babies since 1880), Alaya (11,095 babies since 1880), Alaiya (3,153 babies since 1880) and Alaiyah (2,115 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Alayiah, Alayia and Alahia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Alayiah (730), Alayia (718), Alahia (538), Ahlaya (258), Alaiia (257), Aalaya (242), Alayha (240), Allaya (87), Alaeya (50), Alahya (36), Alayaa (28), Aalaiya (20), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Alaia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 252 | #56 | #481 |
| Rhode Island | 11 | #65 | — |
| New York | 201 | #67 | #204 |
| Texas | 344 | #72 | #629 |
| New Jersey | 98 | #73 | #254 |
| California | 336 | #88 | #746 |
| Arizona | 64 | #89 | — |
| Nevada | 23 | #91 | — |
| Massachusetts | 58 | #95 | #323 |
| Delaware | 8 | #98 | — |
| Connecticut | 26 | #111 | #310 |
| New Mexico | 12 | #112 | — |
| Illinois | 79 | #117 | #987 |
| Maryland | 35 | #130 | — |
| Washington | 51 | #131 | #1,119 |
| Alaska | 5 | #138 | — |
| North Carolina | 70 | #141 | #763 |
| Georgia | 68 | #144 | #776 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #150 | — |
| Mississippi | 16 | #151 | — |
| Arkansas | 19 | #154 | — |
| Tennessee | 46 | #165 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 65 | #171 | #482 |
| Utah | 25 | #185 | — |
| South Carolina | 25 | #188 | — |
| Indiana | 36 | #193 | — |
| Virginia | 43 | #193 | — |
| Wisconsin | 28 | #195 | — |
| Louisiana | 20 | #212 | #886 |
| Alabama | 21 | #223 | — |
| Colorado | 28 | #223 | #774 |
| Oregon | 15 | #243 | — |
| Idaho | 9 | #247 | — |
| Minnesota | 20 | #271 | — |
| Oklahoma | 15 | #272 | — |
| West Virginia | 6 | #274 | — |
| Ohio | 38 | #289 | — |
| Missouri | 19 | #311 | — |
| Nebraska | 6 | #337 | — |
| Michigan | 26 | #340 | — |
| Iowa | 9 | #354 | — |
| Kansas | 9 | #361 | — |
| Kentucky | 11 | #385 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,318 | #117 | 6 | #10,739 |
| 2024 | 2,429 | #112 | — | — |
| 2023 | 2,305 | #120 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2,081 | #139 | 5 | #12,433 |
| 2021 | 2,219 | #128 | — | — |
| 2020 | 2,282 | #120 | 6 | #10,654 |
| 2019 | 1,604 | #184 | — | — |
| 2018 | 527 | #583 | — | — |
| 2017 | 461 | #638 | — | — |
| 2016 | 487 | #615 | — | — |
| 2015 | 429 | #664 | — | — |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,650 | — | — |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,006 | — | — |
| 2012 | 54 | #3,097 | — | — |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,452 | — | — |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,746 | — | — |
| 2009 | 44 | #3,620 | — | — |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,182 | — | — |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,217 | — | — |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,856 | — | — |
| 2005 | 26 | #4,962 | — | — |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,497 | — | — |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,530 | — | — |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,152 | — | — |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,330 | — | — |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,175 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,473 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,351 | — | — |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,593 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,479 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,578 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,509 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,564 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).