Meaning not yet researched.
Alaya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 834 in 2025. Its best rank was #338 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #338 in 2020; #368 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alaya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#368 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #338.
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Alaya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 834 girls in 2025. Peak: #338 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 915 (2020).
In 2025, 834 US girls were named Alaya, making it the 368th most common girls’ name of the year, down 6 places from #362 in 2024. That is 32 fewer than the 866 girls named Alaya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #338, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 915. For comparison, it was #728 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alaya in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 5 babies. In all, 11,095 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 5,044 babies named Alaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,173 US girls were named Alaya; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 915. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,927 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alaya ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #224 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), Alaiya (3,153 babies since 1880) and Alaiyah (2,115 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 Alaya 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 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 19 | #224 | #411 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #251 | — |
| Maryland | 20 | #253 | #695 |
| Pennsylvania | 42 | #259 | #518 |
| Florida | 71 | #269 | #490 |
| Kentucky | 16 | #275 | — |
| Georgia | 35 | #291 | #559 |
| North Carolina | 37 | #297 | #518 |
| Arkansas | 10 | #302 | — |
| Mississippi | 9 | #303 | #423 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #311 | — |
| Massachusetts | 18 | #313 | #833 |
| Nevada | 8 | #328 | — |
| Michigan | 27 | #331 | #527 |
| Virginia | 24 | #333 | #515 |
| Tennessee | 23 | #350 | #580 |
| Missouri | 17 | #351 | — |
| Arizona | 19 | #358 | #656 |
| New Jersey | 22 | #363 | #946 |
| Wisconsin | 14 | #365 | #442 |
| California | 86 | #382 | #1,252 |
| Texas | 88 | #383 | #989 |
| New York | 44 | #388 | #1,142 |
| Iowa | 8 | #393 | — |
| Connecticut | 7 | #397 | — |
| South Carolina | 12 | #405 | — |
| Illinois | 25 | #418 | #603 |
| Indiana | 16 | #419 | #507 |
| Colorado | 13 | #428 | #775 |
| Kansas | 7 | #445 | #461 |
| Oregon | 7 | #484 | — |
| Alabama | 9 | #521 | #690 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #542 | #669 |
| Washington | 12 | #543 | #767 |
| Ohio | 18 | #562 | #514 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #620 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 834 | #368 | — | — |
| 2024 | 866 | #362 | — | — |
| 2023 | 746 | #409 | — | — |
| 2022 | 795 | #393 | — | — |
| 2021 | 888 | #350 | — | — |
| 2020 | 915 | #338 | — | — |
| 2019 | 782 | #394 | — | — |
| 2018 | 487 | #616 | — | — |
| 2017 | 452 | #659 | — | — |
| 2016 | 408 | #703 | — | — |
| 2015 | 389 | #728 | — | — |
| 2014 | 347 | #805 | — | — |
| 2013 | 338 | #800 | — | — |
| 2012 | 328 | #817 | — | — |
| 2011 | 292 | #893 | — | — |
| 2010 | 242 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 2009 | 300 | #907 | — | — |
| 2008 | 236 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 2007 | 186 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 2006 | 198 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 2005 | 161 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 2004 | 117 | #1,655 | — | — |
| 2003 | 118 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 2002 | 96 | #1,853 | — | — |
| 2001 | 127 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 2000 | 77 | #2,104 | — | — |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,641 | — | — |
| 1998 | 49 | #2,732 | — | — |
| 1997 | 52 | #2,481 | — | — |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,673 | — | — |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,933 | — | — |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,168 | — | — |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,043 | — | — |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,522 | — | — |
| 1991 | 12 | #6,980 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,471 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,704 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,576 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,407 | — | — |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,919 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,446 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,235 | — | — |
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).