Alaiya
Alaiya was given to 343 girls in 2025, #792 among girls’ names; 3,153 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,130 Americans named Alaiya 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 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alaiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alaiya?
#792 among girls’ names, 2025
Alaiya rose from #3,092 in 2015 to #792 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.03 to 0.21 per 1,000.
396 babies in 2021, the peak
Alaiya peaked in 2021, when 396 girls were given it, #721 among girls’ names. The 343 births of 2025 are 87% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 343 | #792 | 0.21 |
| 2024 | 282 | #935 | 0.17 |
| 2023 | 258 | #990 | 0.16 |
| 2022 | 276 | #966 | 0.17 |
| 2021 | 396 | #721 | 0.24 |
| 2020 | 350 | #778 | 0.22 |
| 2019 | 353 | #786 | 0.21 |
| 2018 | 213 | #1,145 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 73 | #2,465 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,698 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #3,092 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,842 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,406 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,316 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,662 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,820 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,016 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,016 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,133 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,555 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,824 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,399 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,527 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,397 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,370 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,810 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,502 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,601 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,831 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,844 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,541 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alaiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alaiya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alaiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alaiya, and how old are they?
3,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,153 Americans ever recorded as Alaiya. The median Alaiya alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 913 people named Alaiya (909 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,328 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% 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 | 13 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 368 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,750 |
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 Alaiya born?
The states with the most babies named Alaiya are California, Texas and Florida, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 51 | #618 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 37 | #800 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 35 | #515 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 21 | #529 | 1.4× |
| Virginia | 17 | #465 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 16 | #597 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 14 | #555 | 0.7× |
| New York | 13 | #1,088 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #836 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #814 | 0.8× |
Where Alaiya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alaiya is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1995 it was given 1.4 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 Alaiya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 121,555 babies since 1880, Alaiya is the eighth most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 343 of their 6,553 babies (5.2%), the sixth 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 Alaiya
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 Alaiya and names like it
- Compare Alaiya and AliyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAlaiya peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alaiya since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Alaiya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Alaiya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.