Aleya
Aleya was given to 105 girls in 2025, #1,873 among girls’ names; 2,128 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,110 Americans named Aleya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aleya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aleya?
#1,873 among girls’ names, 2025
Aleya rose from #3,347 in 2015 to #1,873 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 26.9 to 65.3 per million.
105 babies in 2025, the peak
Aleya peaked in 2025, when 105 girls were given it, #1,873 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 97 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 105 | #1,873 | 65.3 |
| 2024 | 97 | #2,011 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 85 | #2,211 | 53.0 |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,606 | 40.9 |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,385 | 45.7 |
| 2020 | 79 | #2,257 | 48.9 |
| 2019 | 74 | #2,401 | 44.1 |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,498 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,194 | 29.0 |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,141 | 29.3 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #3,347 | 26.9 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,807 | 34.1 |
| 2013 | 81 | #2,283 | 46.2 |
| 2012 | 85 | #2,206 | 48.3 |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,764 | 35.8 |
| 2010 | 72 | #2,539 | 40.5 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,705 | 36.5 |
| 2008 | 58 | #2,995 | 30.7 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,752 | 34.3 |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,135 | 27.9 |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,827 | 31.4 |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,553 | 35.4 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,838 | 29.6 |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,147 | 25.0 |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,407 | 36.1 |
| 2000 | 70 | #2,234 | 38.5 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,735 | 28.2 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,012 | 23.8 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,035 | 22.4 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,233 | 20.5 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,490 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,873 | 23.0 |
| 1993 | 15 | #5,962 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,656 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,593 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #7,889 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,883 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,674 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,315 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,542 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,343 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,454 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 14 | #4,949 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,135 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,430 | 4.8 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,585 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,311 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,097 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,807 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aleya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aleya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aleya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aleya, and how old are they?
2,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,128 Americans ever recorded as Aleya. The median Aleya alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,702 people named Aleya (1,696 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,624 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 28 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 224 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 942 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 913 |
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 Aleya born?
The states with the most babies named Aleya are California, Texas and Florida, with 65% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
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 Aleya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Aleya?
Aleya is a less common spelling of Alaia: SSA has recorded 2,128 Aleya and 17,699 Alaia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 133,899 babies since 1880, Aleya is the eighth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 105 of their 6,301 babies (1.7%), 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 Aleya
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 Aleya and names like it
- Compare Aleya and AlaiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAleya peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aleya since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Aleya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aleya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.