Alaysha
Alaysha was given to 69 girls in 2025, #2,542 among girls’ names; 1,886 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,870 Americans named Alaysha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alaysha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alaysha?
#2,542 among girls’ names, 2025
Alaysha rose from #3,481 in 2015 to #2,542 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 25.2 to 42.9 per million.
109 babies in 2001, the peak
Alaysha peaked in 2001, when 109 girls were given it, #1,658 among girls’ names. The 69 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 69 | #2,542 | 42.9 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,642 | 25.9 |
| 2023 | 51 | #3,185 | 31.8 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,597 | 26.2 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,735 | 24.4 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,780 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,225 | 29.2 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,770 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,436 | 26.1 |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,232 | 28.2 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #3,481 | 25.2 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,488 | 25.2 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,644 | 23.9 |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,134 | 30.1 |
| 2011 | 51 | #3,224 | 29.0 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,694 | 37.1 |
| 2009 | 80 | #2,397 | 43.5 |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,957 | 31.2 |
| 2007 | 89 | #2,215 | 46.3 |
| 2006 | 79 | #2,375 | 41.6 |
| 2005 | 72 | #2,433 | 39.0 |
| 2004 | 62 | #2,649 | 33.8 |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,200 | 42.7 |
| 2002 | 93 | #1,896 | 51.8 |
| 2001 | 109 | #1,658 | 60.5 |
| 2000 | 89 | #1,896 | 49.0 |
| 1999 | 77 | #2,015 | 43.4 |
| 1998 | 50 | #2,689 | 28.3 |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,692 | 26.4 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,941 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 15 | #5,961 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,712 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,254 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,270 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,404 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,872 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,049 | 4.9 |
| 1987 | 8 | #7,994 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alaysha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alaysha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alaysha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alaysha, and how old are they?
1,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,886 Americans ever recorded as Alaysha. The median Alaysha alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,279 people named Alaysha (1,275 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,598 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 143 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,140 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 583 |
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 Alaysha born?
The states with the most babies named Alaysha are New York, Texas and Florida, with 70% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 13 | #1,089 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,645 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,895 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,043 | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #877 | 0.4× |
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 Alaysha 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 83,387 babies since 1880, Alaysha is the sixth most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 69 of their 323 babies (21%), the second 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 Alaysha
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 Alaysha and names like it
- Compare Alaysha and AlishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAlaysha peaked in 2001.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alaysha since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Alaysha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alaysha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.