Alayna — #312 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Alayna

The Social Security Administration has registered 34,649 babies named Alayna between 1945 and 2024, spanning 80 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Alayna currently holds the #312 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2013, when 1,562 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alayna performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 14,445 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Alayna shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 3,179 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Alayna in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alayna in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 34,649 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.