Meaning not yet researched.
Alaiah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 121 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,455 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,455 in 2020; #1,692 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alaiah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,692 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,455.
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Alaiah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 121 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,455 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 148 (2020).
In 2025, 121 US girls were named Alaiah, making it the 1,692nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 362 places from #2,054 in 2024. That is 27 more than the 94 girls named Alaiah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,455, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 148. For comparison, it was #3,916 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alaiah in 23 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2002 with 11 babies. In all, 1,156 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 698 babies named Alaiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 946 US girls were named Alaiah; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 148. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,283 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alaiah ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #865 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alaia (17,699 babies since 1880), Alayah (12,228 babies since 1880), Alaya (11,095 babies since 1880) and Alaiya (3,153 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Alaiah 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 18 | #865 | — |
| Texas | 25 | #1,089 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,175 | — |
| California | 17 | #1,362 | — |
| New York | 9 | #1,421 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 121 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 2024 | 94 | #2,054 | — | — |
| 2023 | 112 | #1,802 | — | — |
| 2022 | 99 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 2021 | 124 | #1,676 | — | — |
| 2020 | 148 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 2019 | 119 | #1,740 | — | — |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,397 | — | — |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,000 | — | — |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,415 | — | — |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,916 | — | — |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,802 | — | — |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,473 | — | — |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,717 | — | — |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,799 | — | — |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,533 | — | — |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,076 | — | — |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,121 | — | — |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,558 | — | — |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,210 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,950 | — | — |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,915 | — | — |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,858 | — | — |
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).