Meaning not yet researched.
Alayla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 64 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,779 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,779 in 2017; #2,693 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alayla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,693 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #1,779.
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Alayla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 64 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,779 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 117 (2017).
In 2025, 64 US girls were named Alayla, making it the 2,693rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 231 places from #2,462 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 73 girls named Alayla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,779, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 117. For comparison, it was #2,210 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alayla in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 7 babies. In all, 1,754 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 914 babies named Alayla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 823 US girls were named Alayla; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 117. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,114 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alayla ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,837 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Alaila, Alaylah and Alyla are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Alaila (593), Alaylah (383), Alyla (253), Alylah (203), Alila (139), Alailah (135), Aleila (135), Aleyla (85), Alula (81), Ahlayla (33), Alala (15), Aliylah (10), and more.
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 Alayla 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,837 | #2,729 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,311 | #3,278 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,693 | — | — |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,462 | — | — |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,731 | — | — |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,758 | — | — |
| 2021 | 63 | #2,717 | — | — |
| 2020 | 83 | #2,171 | — | — |
| 2019 | 96 | #1,999 | — | — |
| 2018 | 112 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 2017 | 117 | #1,779 | — | — |
| 2016 | 90 | #2,149 | — | — |
| 2015 | 85 | #2,210 | — | — |
| 2014 | 87 | #2,176 | — | — |
| 2013 | 92 | #2,083 | — | — |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,375 | — | — |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,299 | — | — |
| 2010 | 76 | #2,451 | — | — |
| 2009 | 74 | #2,531 | — | — |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,630 | — | — |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,751 | — | — |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,887 | — | — |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,121 | — | — |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,446 | — | — |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,595 | — | — |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,138 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,135 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,108 | — | — |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,427 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,602 | — | — |
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).