Alaiyah
Alaiyah was given to 131 girls in 2025, #1,593 among girls’ names; 2,115 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,100 Americans named Alaiyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alaiyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alaiyah?
#1,593 among girls’ names, 2025
Alaiyah rose from #2,209 in 2015 to #1,593 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 47.6 to 81.5 per million.
206 babies in 2021, the peak
Alaiyah peaked in 2021, when 206 girls were given it, #1,181 among girls’ names. The 131 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 131 | #1,593 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 148 | #1,473 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 175 | #1,302 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 169 | #1,371 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 206 | #1,181 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 173 | #1,287 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 176 | #1,303 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 113 | #1,799 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,358 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,517 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 85 | #2,209 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 89 | #2,141 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,904 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,735 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,838 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,206 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,678 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,287 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,380 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,914 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,116 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,083 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,586 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,295 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,075 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,553 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,503 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,347 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,560 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,542 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,595 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alaiyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alaiyah 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 Alaiyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alaiyah, and how old are they?
2,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,115 Americans ever recorded as Alaiyah. The median Alaiyah alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 803 people named Alaiyah (801 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,149 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% 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 | 421 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,660 |
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 Alaiyah born?
The states with the most babies named Alaiyah are Florida, Texas and California, with 48% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 15 | #1,000 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 14 | #1,622 | 0.9× |
| California | 14 | #1,578 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,216 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,143 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 7 | #820 | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,247 | 0.7× |
| New York | 5 | #2,092 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,400 | 0.5× |
| South Carolina | 5 | #779 | 0.6× |
Where Alaiyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alaiyah is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1994 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 Alaiyah 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 219,174 babies since 1880, Alaiyah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 131 of their 8,363 babies (1.6%), 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 Alaiyah
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 Alaiyah and names like it
- Compare Alaiyah and AaliyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAlaiyah peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alaiyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Alaiyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Alaiyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.