Meaning not yet researched.
Alaiyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 131 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,181 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,181 in 2021; #1,593 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alaiyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,593 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,181.
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Alaiyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 131 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,181 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 206 (2021).
In 2025, 131 US girls were named Alaiyah, making it the 1,593rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 120 places from #1,473 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 148 girls named Alaiyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,181, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 206. For comparison, it was #2,209 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alaiyah in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 7 babies. In all, 2,115 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,002 babies named Alaiyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,439 US girls were named Alaiyah; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 206. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,269 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alaiyah ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #779 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.
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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 Alaiyah 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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 5 | #779 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #820 | — |
| Florida | 15 | #1,000 | #1,182 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,143 | #1,396 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,176 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,216 | #1,058 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,247 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,400 | — |
| California | 14 | #1,578 | #2,500 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,622 | #2,209 |
| New York | 5 | #2,092 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 131 | #1,593 | — | — |
| 2024 | 148 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 2023 | 175 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 2022 | 169 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 2021 | 206 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 2020 | 173 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 2019 | 176 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 2018 | 113 | #1,799 | — | — |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,358 | — | — |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,517 | — | — |
| 2015 | 85 | #2,209 | — | — |
| 2014 | 89 | #2,141 | — | — |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,905 | — | — |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,735 | — | — |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,839 | — | — |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,207 | — | — |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,679 | — | — |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,289 | — | — |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,383 | — | — |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,916 | — | — |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,120 | — | — |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,088 | — | — |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,591 | — | — |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,301 | — | — |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,080 | — | — |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,561 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,510 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,352 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,567 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,547 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,601 | — | — |
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).