Meaning not yet researched.
Alayna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 927 in 2025. Its best rank was #201 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #201 in 2012; #332 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alayna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#332 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #201.
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Alayna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 927 girls in 2025. Peak: #201 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 1,563 (2013).
In 2025, 927 US girls were named Alayna, making it the 332nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 21 places from #311 in 2024. That is 61 fewer than the 988 girls named Alayna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #201, reached in 2012. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,563, in 2013. For comparison, it was #223 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alayna in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1945 with 5 babies. In all, 35,594 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 14,457 babies named Alayna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,039 US girls were named Alayna; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,444. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,734 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alayna ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #126 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alana (68,295 babies since 1880), Alaina (50,584 babies since 1880), Alina (45,387 babies since 1880) and Alanna (27,019 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aleynah, Aleynna and Alleyna 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: Aleynah (153), Aleynna (92), Alleyna (42), Allaynah (10), Alaynnah (6).
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 Alayna 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 10 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 12 | #126 | #95 |
| Montana | 7 | #144 | #140 |
| Hawaii | 5 | #168 | #227 |
| Delaware | 5 | #170 | — |
| Kentucky | 26 | #173 | #195 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #183 | — |
| North Dakota | 5 | #197 | #132 |
| Pennsylvania | 53 | #210 | #188 |
| Maine | 5 | #212 | #224 |
| Arkansas | 13 | #231 | #397 |
| Indiana | 26 | #268 | #110 |
| Connecticut | 12 | #268 | #395 |
| Michigan | 32 | #275 | #122 |
| Missouri | 22 | #277 | #153 |
| Florida | 67 | #281 | #246 |
| Kansas | 11 | #286 | #205 |
| Wisconsin | 18 | #296 | #145 |
| Texas | 111 | #308 | #214 |
| New York | 54 | #311 | #457 |
| Alabama | 15 | #318 | #358 |
| Ohio | 34 | #324 | #164 |
| Iowa | 10 | #324 | #148 |
| Nevada | 8 | #329 | #156 |
| Illinois | 32 | #333 | #189 |
| Tennessee | 24 | #335 | #195 |
| North Carolina | 32 | #344 | #214 |
| Maryland | 15 | #356 | #277 |
| Colorado | 16 | #371 | #533 |
| California | 87 | #379 | #421 |
| Georgia | 28 | #403 | #201 |
| South Carolina | 12 | #406 | #184 |
| Washington | 17 | #414 | #282 |
| Minnesota | 12 | #422 | #183 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #428 | #199 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #438 | #168 |
| Arizona | 15 | #446 | #181 |
| New Jersey | 13 | #573 | #388 |
| Utah | 6 | #607 | #339 |
| Virginia | 12 | #608 | #146 |
| Oregon | 5 | #624 | #383 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #627 | #621 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 927 | #332 | — | — |
| 2024 | 988 | #311 | — | — |
| 2023 | 982 | #316 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,163 | #273 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,183 | #263 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,212 | #248 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,396 | #222 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,366 | #235 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,378 | #229 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,444 | #221 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,464 | #223 | 5 | #12,158 |
| 2014 | 1,549 | #217 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,563 | #206 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,550 | #201 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,409 | #225 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,333 | #236 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,187 | #277 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,177 | #285 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,248 | #273 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,217 | #271 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,149 | #288 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,062 | #303 | — | — |
| 2003 | 910 | #341 | — | — |
| 2002 | 780 | #380 | — | — |
| 2001 | 720 | #403 | — | — |
| 2000 | 660 | #426 | — | — |
| 1999 | 578 | #459 | — | — |
| 1998 | 431 | #568 | — | — |
| 1997 | 342 | #647 | — | — |
| 1996 | 355 | #630 | — | — |
| 1995 | 331 | #650 | — | — |
| 1994 | 329 | #653 | — | — |
| 1993 | 296 | #719 | — | — |
| 1992 | 234 | #852 | — | — |
| 1991 | 219 | #894 | — | — |
| 1990 | 163 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1989 | 133 | #1,213 | — | — |
| 1988 | 128 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 1987 | 107 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 1986 | 106 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 1985 | 88 | #1,429 | — | — |
| 1984 | 79 | #1,459 | — | — |
| 1983 | 67 | #1,645 | — | — |
| 1982 | 64 | #1,735 | — | — |
| 1981 | 84 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 1980 | 72 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 1979 | 46 | #2,148 | — | — |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,191 | — | — |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,368 | — | — |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,288 | — | — |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,681 | — | — |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,213 | — | — |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,234 | — | — |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,795 | — | — |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,312 | — | — |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,112 | — | — |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,198 | — | — |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,170 | — | — |
| 1967 | 22 | #2,632 | — | — |
| 1966 | 11 | #3,960 | — | — |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,496 | — | — |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,359 | — | — |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,543 | — | — |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,869 | — | — |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,313 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,410 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,419 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,561 | — | — |
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).