Meaning not yet researched.
Alaiya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 343 in 2025. Its best rank was #721 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #721 in 2021; #792 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alaiya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#792 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #721.
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Alaiya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 343 girls in 2025. Peak: #721 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 396 (2021).
In 2025, 343 US girls were named Alaiya, making it the 792nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 143 places from #935 in 2024. That is 61 more than the 282 girls named Alaiya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #721, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 396. For comparison, it was #3,092 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alaiya in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 7 babies. In all, 3,153 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,905 babies named Alaiya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,608 US girls were named Alaiya; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 396. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,686 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alaiya ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #465 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 Alaiyah (2,115 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Alaiya 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 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 17 | #465 | — |
| Florida | 35 | #515 | #2,082 |
| Georgia | 21 | #529 | — |
| Michigan | 14 | #555 | — |
| Illinois | 16 | #597 | — |
| California | 51 | #618 | — |
| Tennessee | 11 | #648 | — |
| Maryland | 7 | #656 | — |
| Louisiana | 6 | #679 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #746 | — |
| Texas | 37 | #800 | #2,882 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #814 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #815 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #819 | — |
| North Carolina | 11 | #836 | — |
| New Jersey | 7 | #945 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,057 | — |
| New York | 13 | #1,088 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,139 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 343 | #792 | — | — |
| 2024 | 282 | #935 | — | — |
| 2023 | 258 | #990 | — | — |
| 2022 | 276 | #966 | — | — |
| 2021 | 396 | #721 | — | — |
| 2020 | 350 | #778 | — | — |
| 2019 | 353 | #786 | — | — |
| 2018 | 213 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 2017 | 73 | #2,465 | — | — |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,698 | — | — |
| 2015 | 54 | #3,092 | — | — |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,844 | — | — |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,408 | — | — |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,317 | — | — |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,663 | — | — |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,821 | — | — |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,017 | — | — |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,018 | — | — |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,134 | — | — |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,556 | — | — |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,829 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,404 | — | — |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,532 | — | — |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,403 | — | — |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,377 | — | — |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,817 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,509 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,607 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,836 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,850 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,546 | — | — |
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).