Aalayah
Aalayah was given to 54 girls in 2025, #3,028 among girls’ names; 1,276 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,270 Americans named Aalayah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aalayah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aalayah?
#3,028 among girls’ names, 2025
Aalayah fell from #2,555 in 2015 to #3,028 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 39.2 to 33.6 per million.
79 babies in 2019, the peak
Aalayah peaked in 2019, when 79 girls were given it, #2,285 among girls’ names. The 54 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #3,028 | 33.6 |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,225 | 30.2 |
| 2023 | 56 | #2,975 | 34.9 |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,530 | 42.7 |
| 2021 | 67 | #2,586 | 40.8 |
| 2020 | 54 | #2,967 | 33.4 |
| 2019 | 79 | #2,285 | 47.1 |
| 2018 | 57 | #2,904 | 33.5 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,779 | 35.3 |
| 2016 | 66 | #2,643 | 37.2 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | #2,555 | 39.2 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,613 | 37.5 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,403 | 26.2 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,831 | 34.6 |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,013 | 31.8 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,106 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,408 | 26.1 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,549 | 17.5 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,674 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,357 | 17.4 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,495 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,383 | 16.9 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,087 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,377 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,169 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,573 | 7.2 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,714 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,864 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,801 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,666 | 7.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aalayah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aalayah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aalayah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aalayah, and how old are they?
1,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,276 Americans ever recorded as Aalayah. The median Aalayah alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 749 people named Aalayah (748 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 933 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 19 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 457 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 791 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aalayah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,830 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,686 | 0.6× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aalayah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Aalayah?
Aalayah is a less common spelling of Alaia: SSA has recorded 1,276 Aalayah and 17,699 Alaia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 207,247 babies since 1880, Aalayah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 7,900 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aalayah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aalayah and names like it
- Compare Aalayah and AlaiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAalayah peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aalayah since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Aalayah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aalayah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.