Alayshia — girls' name
657 babies named Alayshia in U.S. Social Security records since 1992, with the highest year being 2011. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
657 girls have been named Alayshia since 1992, peaking in the 2000s, last recorded in 2022.
- 657
- total births
- 1992–2022
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 46%
- born in that decade
46% of everyone ever named Alayshia was born in this single decade.
42 babies were named Alayshia in 2011 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Alayshia
The Social Security Administration has registered 657 babies named Alayshia between 1992 and 2022, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Alayshia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 42 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Alayshia performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 299 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Alayshia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 20 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Alayshia in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Alayshia 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 657 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.
Alayshia at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Alayshia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1992
- Peak year (2011)
- 42
- Annual births at peak — across 31 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
657 total births across 31 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2011 with 42 births in a single year.
Alayshia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 299 births that decade — 46% of Alayshia's all-time total
Alayshia decade highlights
- Peak decade 299 births
- Runner-up 256 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Alayshia's strongest decade
299 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 46% of all-time use.
Alayshia by state
Where Alayshia concentrates geographically — total births since 1992
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Louisiana | | 20 | 3.0% |
| #2 | Georgia | | 5 | 0.8% |
| #3 | North Carolina | | 5 | 0.8% |
| #4 | Texas | | 5 | 0.8% |
20 of 657 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Louisiana 3.0% of nationwide
- Georgia 0.8% of nationwide
- North Carolina 0.8% of nationwide
- Texas 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Louisiana accounts for 3.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1992–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.