Meaning not yet researched.
Alayah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 756 in 2025. Its best rank was #278 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #278 in 2020; #412 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alayah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#412 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #278.
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Alayah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 756 girls in 2025. Peak: #278 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 1,136 (2020).
In 2025, 756 US girls were named Alayah, making it the 412th most common girls’ name of the year, up 4 places from #416 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 752 girls named Alayah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #278, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,136. For comparison, it was #572 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alayah in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 10 babies. In all, 12,228 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,316 babies named Alayah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,956 US girls were named Alayah; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 1,136. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,126 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alayah ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #178 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), Alaya (11,095 babies since 1880), Alaiya (3,153 babies since 1880) and Alaiyah (2,115 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Allayah, Ahlayah and Aalaiyah 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: Allayah (406), Ahlayah (209), Aalaiyah (111), Alaeyah (66), Aalayiah (20), Ahlaiyah (5).
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 Alayah 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 19 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 14 | #178 | #540 |
| New Mexico | 7 | #218 | #381 |
| South Carolina | 19 | #266 | #298 |
| Florida | 70 | #274 | #589 |
| Ohio | 38 | #290 | #372 |
| Michigan | 30 | #293 | #259 |
| Mississippi | 9 | #304 | #424 |
| Illinois | 35 | #305 | #557 |
| Massachusetts | 18 | #314 | #834 |
| New Jersey | 25 | #324 | #860 |
| North Carolina | 33 | #331 | #388 |
| Virginia | 23 | #345 | #516 |
| Georgia | 31 | #350 | #337 |
| Iowa | 9 | #355 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | #374 | #581 |
| Tennessee | 21 | #376 | #438 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #378 | #447 |
| Missouri | 15 | #387 | #842 |
| Wisconsin | 13 | #394 | #684 |
| Texas | 84 | #397 | #660 |
| Arizona | 16 | #417 | #491 |
| Washington | 15 | #452 | #943 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #460 | — |
| Louisiana | 9 | #478 | #253 |
| Indiana | 14 | #482 | #338 |
| California | 68 | #491 | #870 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #501 | #428 |
| Alabama | 9 | #522 | #386 |
| Colorado | 10 | #537 | #776 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #550 | #473 |
| New York | 30 | #551 | #887 |
| Maryland | 7 | #657 | #635 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 756 | #412 | — | — |
| 2024 | 752 | #416 | — | — |
| 2023 | 793 | #387 | — | — |
| 2022 | 866 | #367 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,004 | #325 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,136 | #278 | — | — |
| 2019 | 899 | #351 | — | — |
| 2018 | 592 | #530 | — | — |
| 2017 | 578 | #534 | — | — |
| 2016 | 580 | #536 | — | — |
| 2015 | 537 | #572 | — | — |
| 2014 | 553 | #557 | — | — |
| 2013 | 463 | #605 | — | — |
| 2012 | 424 | #668 | — | — |
| 2011 | 373 | #740 | — | — |
| 2010 | 317 | #847 | — | — |
| 2009 | 262 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 2008 | 232 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 2007 | 202 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 2006 | 153 | #1,454 | — | — |
| 2005 | 138 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 2004 | 105 | #1,811 | — | — |
| 2003 | 90 | #2,001 | — | — |
| 2002 | 92 | #1,915 | — | — |
| 2001 | 66 | #2,379 | — | — |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,593 | — | — |
| 1999 | 41 | #3,149 | — | — |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,354 | — | — |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,629 | — | — |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,834 | — | — |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,089 | — | — |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,118 | — | — |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,078 | — | — |
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).