Alayla
Alayla was given to 64 girls in 2025, #2,693 among girls’ names; 1,754 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,740 Americans named Alayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alayla?
#2,693 among girls’ names, 2025
Alayla fell from #2,210 in 2015 to #2,693 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 47.6 to 39.8 per million.
117 babies in 2017, the peak
Alayla peaked in 2017, when 117 girls were given it, #1,779 among girls’ names. The 64 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,693 | 39.8 |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,462 | 45.1 |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,731 | 39.3 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,758 | 37.8 |
| 2021 | 63 | #2,717 | 38.4 |
| 2020 | 83 | #2,171 | 51.3 |
| 2019 | 96 | #1,999 | 57.2 |
| 2018 | 112 | #1,815 | 65.8 |
| 2017 | 117 | #1,779 | 67.8 |
| 2016 | 90 | #2,149 | 50.8 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 85 | #2,210 | 47.6 |
| 2014 | 87 | #2,176 | 48.7 |
| 2013 | 92 | #2,083 | 52.4 |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,375 | 44.3 |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,299 | 46.0 |
| 2010 | 76 | #2,451 | 42.8 |
| 2009 | 74 | #2,530 | 40.3 |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,630 | 37.0 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,751 | 34.3 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,887 | 31.6 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,117 | 18.4 |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,442 | 23.4 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,591 | 21.3 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,133 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,128 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,100 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,420 | 3.9 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,596 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alayla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alayla, and how old are they?
1,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,754 Americans ever recorded as Alayla. The median Alayla alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,079 people named Alayla (1,079 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,358 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 | 7 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 654 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,080 |
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 Alayla born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,837 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,311 | 0.8× |
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 Alayla 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 97,286 babies since 1880, Alayla is the eighth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 64 of their 7,967 babies (<1%), 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 Alayla
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 Alayla and names like it
- Compare Alayla and AylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAlayla peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alayla since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Alayla.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Alayla alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.