Alaiah
Alaiah was given to 121 girls in 2025, #1,692 among girls’ names; 1,156 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Alaiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alaiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alaiah?
#1,692 among girls’ names, 2025
Alaiah rose from #3,915 in 2015 to #1,692 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 21.3 to 75.3 per million.
148 babies in 2020, the peak
Alaiah peaked in 2020, when 148 girls were given it, #1,455 among girls’ names. The 121 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 121 | #1,692 | 75.3 |
| 2024 | 94 | #2,054 | 58.0 |
| 2023 | 112 | #1,802 | 69.8 |
| 2022 | 99 | #1,974 | 60.4 |
| 2021 | 124 | #1,676 | 75.6 |
| 2020 | 148 | #1,455 | 91.6 |
| 2019 | 119 | #1,740 | 70.9 |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,396 | 27.0 |
| 2017 | 37 | #3,999 | 21.4 |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,415 | 26.0 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,915 | 21.3 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,800 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,470 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,714 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,795 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,530 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,073 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,117 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,554 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,205 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,944 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,908 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,852 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alaiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alaiah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alaiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alaiah, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,156 Americans ever recorded as Alaiah. The median Alaiah alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 9.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,020 |
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.
Where are babies named Alaiah born?
The states with the most babies named Alaiah are Texas, Florida and California, with 81% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 25 | #1,089 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 18 | #865 | 1.5× |
| California | 17 | #1,362 | 0.9× |
| New York | 9 | #1,421 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,175 | 0.9× |
Where Alaiah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alaiah is most over-represented in Florida: since 2002 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Alaiah 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 Alaiah?
Alaiah is a less common spelling of Alaia: SSA has recorded 1,156 Alaiah and 17,699 Alaia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 127,683 babies since 1880, Alaiah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 121 of their 6,180 babies (2.0%), again the eighth most given.
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 Alaiah
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 Alaiah and names like it
- Compare Alaiah and AlaiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAlaiah peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alaiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Alaiah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Alaiah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.